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Skriven 2006-09-08 21:09:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: slowdown of late
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Hello Alan - 

CA>>>> I mis-spoke or over empahasized the use of
CA>>>> "interesting". Honestly I'm not so sure what people here
CA>>>> find interesting that pertains to Windows. 

JB>>> Ah... Making it run half as well as the competition? 

CA>>> The "run half as well" is a bit vague. Give me three
CA>>> specific tasks that an OS you own/use can do at twice
CA>>> what a recent version of Windows (98SE forward) can do
CA>>> using the same or comparable hardware. 

RF>> Actually, it's a well known fact that the tools design
RF>> architecture of .nx based OSes, which includes both MAC
RF>> OS-X and Linux, is much simpler and less bloated than the
RF>> application design architecture of Windows. Other things
RF>> being equal, leaner code performs better on comparable
RF>> hardware. 

CA>>> I find that ISP bandwidth, hard drive transfer rates, and
CA>>> FSB rates are a problem and those would affect _every_
CA>>> OS, not just Windows. 

RF>> The point is well taken, although I would note that ISP
RF>> bandwidth is a relative non-factor. Network bandwidth,
RF>> including wireless, wired, USB and Firewire, etc., is
RF>> another matter. 

RF>> Still, the leaner code should have the advantage, IMO. 

RF>> The obvious discrepancy between Windows and other
RF>> platforms, is that there is much written solely for
RF>> Windows. Comparisons at that juncture are meaningless. 

AZ> Although given the existence of free software such as WINE
AZ> which doesn't emulate Windows but provides a set of Windows
AZ> libraries allowing users on Linux, Mac OS X, etc to run
AZ> SOME Windows applications directly in those operating
AZ> systems, and of free emulation environments such as VMWare
AZ> Server and Player, comparisons become more meaningful. 

AZ> Aside from the gaming experiences, it is more possible to
AZ> duplicate the Windows productivity experience under Linux
AZ> or OS X than many might assume. 

Given the complexities and failure rate for many attempting to
use linux and the increase in cost for OSX again I have to ask
"Why?" (as in why bother). 

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