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From: hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Epsilon on Portfolio, Poqet etc.
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.111527.24353@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 15 Apr 91 11:15:27 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.000417.12608@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr11.093641.390@cs.ruu.nl> <1991Apr13.033116.18916@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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In <1991Apr13.033116.18916@midway.uchicago.edu> ab2r@quads.uchicago.edu (Marshall Abrams) writes:

>In article <1991Apr11.093641.390@cs.ruu.nl> hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder) writes:
>>In <1991Apr11.000417.12608@athena.mit.edu> mjwargo@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Wargo) writes:
>>What about a 4,77 MHz 8088 with only 256 Kb memory and 1 360 Kb disk?
>>It works fine as long as you don't try to load big files; there isn't much
>>swappingroom on such a disk.
>
>This is exactly what I wanted to know about--running Epsilon on a 4.77
>mhs 8088.  Can you give a little more info on how quickly Epsilon runs
>on a slow machine like this?  I've been running Freemacs 1.6,
	When you want exact timings, just say so and wait a week. (I
don't have that computer here).

>annoyingly slow some of the time.  Freemacs is OK for most things, but
>I have to sit and wait while it switches from one on-screen window to
>the other.  Microemacs doesn't have this problem, but when more than
>one window is open, what I type doesn't appear on the screen until I stop typing.
	Epsilon doesn't suffer from one of these. (I type reasonably
fast, though not as a fast a professional secretary might. I don't
know about your typingrate)

>getting annoyed...)  So what I want to know is whether in your
>experience with Epsilon on an 8088, you find it "just OK" speedwise,
>with some pretty slow spots, or if it's really fine.  (Of course it's
	Well, there are no problems when doing normal (i.e. what I do
most: typing, moving the cursor, incremental searching, cut-and-paste,
changing window) operations.  When you're doing a global reformat or
an extensive regular-search-and-replace, you would like an AT.  But I
don't perform these operations very often and even on faster computers
you must wait a moment for it to finish -- be it (a lot) shorter.
	What does really slow things down is swapping to floppy or a
slow harddisk.
	All together it works "really fine", with few
sit-back-and-wait's, in the lesser-used functions.

Greetings,
	Ernst
-- 
	Qualitas qualitatem inducit. Semper ego qualitatem.

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