XP Performance

[Marvin Bellamy]

Hi all, first post.  Anyone see the article (sorry, no URL) hinting that 
the big hardware industry players stopped pressing the government for 
stiff penalties against M$ because they realized their slumping sales 
could be boosted because of XP's resource appetite?  At the time, I 
didn't put much faith in it, but what I've been hearing lately has 
changed my mind...

Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

>>Tech Report. These guys are owned by Ziff-Davis aren't they?
>>Ziff-Davis, aren't those guys a M$ clone? Very biased report IMHO,
>>and of course it just goes to show that hardware technology has
>>surpassed software to the point that speed is now limited by hardware
>>(especially bandwidth) and not how big and klumsy your software is.
>>
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>Sorry, but I just have to jump in here...
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>I'm currently working on configuring a Cobalt Raq4 (a slim x86 based Sun
>box) running linux with 64 Megs and a 500 MHz CPU.  While this is a bit
>tight on RAM, the system is happily running linux, apache (two
>versions...one for the 'main' website, and one for the administrative
>configuration server), ftp, ssh, and various other services.  Sourcing lots
>of bandwidth at our CoLo site.
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>With my NT4 system here (required for the hardware design SW I run), I was
>unable to even BOOT with 64 Meg, which I found out the hard way after my
>motherboard died, and the only on-hand spare didn't support my 256M DIMMs.
>I was able to get the system to boot when I scraped together 96 Meg, but it
>took about 7 minutes to come up (VERY heavy swap usage), and it seemed like
>just moving the mouse caused the system to start paging (OK, it wasn't quite
>that bad, but I quickly learned to NOT launch IE).  I don't even want to
>think about trying to run 2K or XP with less than 512 Megs...
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>I'm continuously amazed by both how fast the new hardware is that's been
>coming out the last couple of years, and how slow M$ can make these machines
>feel...all so I can have those pretty gradient title bars and animated
>menus, I guess.  Anyone know how to turn all that stuff off?
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>Charles Steinkuehler
>charles at steinkuehler.net
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