On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, dkphoto wrote:
> Am I to conclude from this that the 'rumors' about Unix/Linux/BSD being 
> fast on older Macs and PC's are less than accurate? I had dreams of 
> breathing life back into several of these old machines. Is it just a 
> bunch of nonsense?

Well, I'd say it's fast compared to MacOS or Windows 9x/NT on the same
hardware. However, it's slow compared to the latest hardware :) Whether
it's fast enough depends on what you want to do... I'd disagree that an
old Mac would be too slow for doing school assignments though; when I
was in school, intro to programming type assignments were done on Mac
Pluses and Mac SEs (Lightspeed Pascal, I think), and the speed seemed
fine... I don't think the CPU power needed by such programs has
really increased over the years :) The assignments for the partial
differential equations class were done on some vector processing VAX
running VMS though :)
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