Subject: Re: netscape on sparc?
To: NetBSD/sparc <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: T. M. Pederson <salvage@plethora.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/30/2001 14:03:14
On "Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:34:26 -0800", Jon Buller <jon@bullers.net> wrote:
>Someone (or group) needs to pull their head out of the sand and
>realize that it does not take a 400MHz G4 or a 900MHz P3 to display
>5KB of text and 100K of JPEGs in less than 30 seconds. Or better,
>2 minutes 50 seconds to get a window frame (with background still in
>the content region!) up after I start a browser in an Xterm.
Urgh. This whole thread is giving me flashbacks to when I was told
to install NS Navigator 1.2 on a '286 --- it was a 3 Mbyte box.
That was marginally worse. (The install took 20 hours....)
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