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The last place I worked had a lot of older machines as well with XP on them. On a few of them I noticed that for some reason the hard drives had gotten put into PIO mode instead of using DMA. Once I fixed that they speed up a little bit.
For the most part though, even with that problem, they worked fine for every day use. The only time they were noticebly slow was when installing some software or windows update (too an hour to install Office 2k3 on one of em).
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funny though - i'd expect some sort of delay between key press and reaction when you're remote connecting to a machine and the network is rather slow
you're sure that's not the case in this instance in some weird and wonderful fashion ?
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You kids in IT today....you don't know how lucky you are.............
In 1978, I had a 'internship' I guess you'd probably call it these days
Then it was called an Industrial Training Period'
I had a job trying to maintain/develop code obviously coded by more than 1 person, and very badly.
The machine in question was a Burroughs B700, it took 1200 lines of COBOL ......... THREE AND A HALF HOURS to compile.
Ooooh I hated that piece of Sh1te.
And I had to to travel 2 hours to get there! GRRRRRR!
Oh Well,life goes on...........Sorry just had to VENT my Thang
So if you have a P3 that just won't cut it today, consider your blessings
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@nogginthenog,
George the one way editor on the ICL 2900, and punch cards, and t'fvckers who used to 'shuffle t'deck' for badness ... to the authors and perpetrators of these inhumanities, I hope they all get herpes in the afterlife, and promoted to management so they have to fill out all those reports noone reads ... and then pour vinegar on their open wounds
The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones
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Originally Posted by Arty Ziff
To write code, why do you need anything more? If you want to play video games or illegally download other people's IP, bring your own laptop to work. Visual Studio, Qt, and Eclipse work just fine on a P3.
Maybe if you have terminal servers with 30 people trying to run say Office 2007 on it I don't think a P3 would cut it. Also does Visual studio even run on 500mhz even if it had half a gig of ram? I highly doubt it would run fast enough to keep productivity up.
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Cody, you don't understand reality. You just don't understand that people can't be bothered to write good code, anymore.
One can't really blame them; it costs, instead of pays.
Or because everything is rushed through everything and they don't care about anything else expect if it's working. That's half the problem, the time allotted to write good code is not given and therefore something is cobbled together that barely works and is a dog when it comes to performance.
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Originally Posted by Axweildr
@nogginthenog,
George the one way editor on the ICL 2900, and punch cards, and t'fvckers who used to 'shuffle t'deck' for badness ... to the authors and perpetrators of these inhumanities, I hope they all get herpes in the afterlife, and promoted to management so they have to fill out all those reports noone reads ... and then pour vinegar on their open wounds
I'm not sick, but I am twisted ...
Ahh George 3 ...
(PS/ERROR/,L,1,L),E,E if I recall correctly was handy in listing compile errors?
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@Axweildr, @SimonJM :
I never used the 2900, but liked GEORGE 3 & 4 on the 1900. I remember a mis-configured command (bad
parameter checking) that would produce a System Error B after typing 8 specific chars into a MOP
terminal. Hehe - I didnt do it often.
ISTR a story about the upgrade procedure from a 1903 to a 1904 (or some pair ...) involving the ICL
engineer removing 1 wire link, to make it go faster. Or was it installing the link ? Who knows, or
cares.
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