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- From: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Productivity != SPECmarks, crap-compatibility - what for? (Was: Re: What's in a name?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.165906.368@darkcube.radig.de>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:59:06 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.183334.19342@crd.ge.com>
- Sender: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@darkcube.radig.de
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Jul20.183334.19342@crd.ge.com> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM
- (william E Davidsen) writes:
- > In article <1325@pacsoft.com>, mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik) writes:
- >
- > |> : What it comes down to is that people are unsatisfied with what their
- > |> : computer does for them so they keep buying bug-fixes (aka upgrades) as
- > |> : well as new CPUs [...] while around me people keep upgrading their
- > |> : PCs from 386/33 to 486/25 to 486/33 to 486/50 and are still unhappy.
- > |>
- > |> People upgrade their machines because the marketing hype tells them that
- > |> this will put them on the road to Nirvana, and hope against hope, they
- > |> open their wallet one more time. This has nothing to do with a specific
- > |> machine architecture or operating system.
-
- No, I guess it doesn't.
-
- > |> : I'm sure the day will come when people notice that it's a matter of
- > |> : (esp. OS) software more than hardware [...]
- >
- > That would improve the output speed.
-
- No, no, no! You can improve output speed by upgrading to a faster machine.
- That's what people keep doing and that's what I'm critisizing. It is for
- most cases (i.e. private applications, different for number-crunching) the
- wrong approach. The right approach is to improve the *quality* on the output
- and input side. I.e. keep things like copyright-messages and other such crap
- off my screen, use an output format so that output can be used as input to
- another command, etc.
- It's no use having a fast processor if you have to keep answering lots of
- redundant dialogs for every little bit of real work you want to do.
- A well-designed combination of OS+GUI can improve one's productivity
- by an order of magnitude, while the next chip generation usually only does x2.
-
- But let's take this out of comp.arch - maybe to alt.pervert.microsoft? ;-}
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@darkcube.radig.de)
-
- If I had intel inside(tm), I'd throw up...
-