At 23:55 Uhr +0100 02.02.2000, 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?

Depends on what you do... gcc is not a speed daemon, especially with -O2.
I'd suspect Think C 5 or an early Metrowerks compiler is faster.

An SE/30 "under" X11 is about as "fast" as an SE under System 7 -- with way
less functionality.

It's networking/server stuff where Unices shine. And shell work, maybe.

	hauke


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