Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

["David" <iamdavid@iname.com>]

> sheercon@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> That is rubbish !  Whether I am using Windows 3.x, or 98 or NT, Netscape is
> the only
> application on my PC's which I would consider "unstable".  Mind you, I do
hammer my
> PC's ......
>
> Mike
>

I agree this is a sensible thing to do....

Whenever I use a PC I am very tempted to hammer it, with a BIG hammer.

And for a lot of good reasons. Not the least of which is it might speed it
up. In my personal experience a brand new, (and not loaded with everything
ever written for a PC) 400MHz Presario with 96Mb RAM  is slower in actual
use (forget benchmarks) than a 120MHz Mac PPC, even in simplest of tasks,
like opening a window, which takes up to a second.

And my old 266MHz Pentium machine takes longer to open the "My Computer"
window than my 400MHz B&W G3 Mac does to open Netscape..... this is NOT an
exaggeration, but a practical, timed, actual, and repeatable situation.