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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Sun vs. Solbourne console speed
- Message-ID: <15864@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 21:30:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.221357.3831@boingo.med.jhu.edu> <15848@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <Bz569H.4Cx@rahul.net>
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- >This explain *how* Sun made the console driver slow, but not *why*.
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- OK. The *why* is that, as I understand it, they fucked up and forgot to
- make the interpreter cacheable.
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- One can, of course, then ask why they forgot to make the interpreter
- cacheable, but I'm sure most of the computer weenies in the audience are
- familiar with the terms "infinite loop" and "infinite recursion", so I'm
- sure most of them will realize that, at some point, asking "why?" isn't
- going to get them anywhere....
-