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- From: dholland@husc10.harvard.edu (David Holland)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: Searchlight
- Message-ID: <DHOLLAND.92Jul30221400@husc10.harvard.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 05:14:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc10.DHOLLAND.92Jul30221400
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- news.cso.uiuc.edu><1992Jul25.172208.9598@panix.com><DHOLLAND.92Jul26174525@husc10.harvard.edu><1992Jul27.153819.27911@panix.com>
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- In-reply-to: fnord@panix.com's message of Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:38:19 GMT
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- fnord@panix.com writes:
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- > In <DHOLLAND.92Jul26174525@husc10.harvard.edu> dholland@husc10.harvard.edu (David Holland) writes:
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- > >I think I will throw in here that Searchlight has always struck me as a
- > >brain-dead Citadel.
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- > Interesting. When Searchlight was written there was no Citadel.
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- Really? Citadel dates to 1978 or so in its earliest forms.
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- > Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Besides, I doubt that
- > Citadel really has the performance advantage of Searchlight (regardless of
- > what "doc" thinks).
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- What performance advantage? Citadels are highly optimized for speed and
- efficiency. Don't forget the early CP/M versions were limited to 64K of memory
- and small floppy drives.
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- Can you run a Searchlight system off floppies on an XT and still get adequate
- performance?
- --
- - David A. Holland dholland@husc.harvard.edu
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- Feel disillusioned? I've got some great new illusions...
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