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- From: bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
- Subject: Re: Sun vs. Solbourne console speed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.080839.8561@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- References: <15864@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Dec17.002452.18004@cirrus.com> <15984@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:08:39 GMT
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- In article <15984@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >....
- >Or, to put it another way, I've seen no evidence whatsoever that it's a
- >case of "let's deliberately make the console slow". At most, it's a
- >case of "yeah, the console is slow, but we don't think it's worth our
- >while doing things differently to make it faster."
-
- I buy that on the older machines. I'm curious about one thing
- though. What is the screen speed on the LX, Classic, and SS10s? The claim
- made by Sun's own employee at USENIX was that the slow screen speed was the
- result of a minor bug (and implies an easy fix). I would think that any
- reasonable vendor would roll all of the known bug fixes into the next major
- release. I would have thought would this would appear on the the machines I
- mention above. If not does this mean that the other bugs mentioned in the
- paper are still there as well? If yes, they are slow at bug fixing (some
- would say this is typical of Sun). If no, the conspiracy theories start
- again.
-
- Bill Bogstad
-