Null references (oh no, not again!)

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Fri Mar 6 14:37:12 PST 2009


"Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote in message 
news:gos7ma$h4b$1 at digitalmars.com...
> BCS wrote:
>> Reply to Sean,
>>
>>> We had a couple of Wang Word Processors (I think) in our school that
>>> used those, but I never got to touch one.  Only the PETs that used an
>>> external audio cassette drive for data storage.  Probably took a full
>>> 60 seconds to load a program from one of those things... not too
>>> shabby for a whole 4k.
>>
>> Computers now have literally orders (many orders) of magnitude more space 
>> and power and the load times for real program haven't even improved by 
>> even a single order of magnitude. :b
>
> You're joking, right?
>
> They've got worse, by orders of magnitude. A 5 second boot with the 
> Kaypro, versus (don't even know how long) for Vista on an average 
> computer. Or firing up OpenOffice. (I've got a quad-core screamer now that 
> I got fed up with using only old hardware, and OO still is slow to start.)
>
> My VIC-20 booted up in less than 2 seconds.
>
> ----
>
> Ok, they're trying. Windows-7 boots up a lot faster than Vista. And 
> Fedora-10 much faster than my Ubuntu or an older Fedora. And Fedora has 
> promised the next release to "really boot fast". But still...
>
> With Windows 3.3 on a crappy 386 with a slow hard disk, Excel and Word 
> were on almost as soon as you double clicked the icon.
>
> If one wants truly Blazing Speed, get Wine and install W95 on it with 
> Office-95. And for compilation and programming, Borland Pascal from the 
> same era.

And then there's shut-down speeds. It amazes me how long to takes to flush 
some IO, kill a few connections, and do god-knows-what with a bunch of ram 
that's just going to get cleared anyway.





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