RE: [Dev-C++] Longhorn

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

But now you are discussing the speed of new machines in the high-end
range. Expect a lot of people with 2-3 year old machines to want the next
OS too. 2005-3 = 2002. Note that the machine they demonstrated on had a
ATI Radeom 9700, which a normal machine from 2002 (and 2003) do not have.
I don't even think it was available other in sample quantities last year.

Most people git a bit angry if the OS manufacturer forces them to change
computer just because. That is a big reason why a lot of servers around
the world are running Gnu/Linux or FreeBSD. Even a 486 or Pentium machine
can perform important services since the OS never steals capacity. If the
machine was capable of running a fax software 1995, it will still be able
to run the fax software now. On a M$ machine, you might not even have time
to wait for the software to start up, if you did the bad mistake of
upgrading OS or software on an older machine.

/Per W


On Thu, 8 May 2003, Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev...@li...
> > [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf
> > Of David Matthews
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:31 PM
> > To: dev...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Longhorn
> >
> >
> > I must say that I find these updates very interesting.  I don't mind
> > finding out new tidbits that M$ releases about Longhorn in
> > the least.  The
> > bit that got me though was the "The underlying hardware that
> > powered this
> > graphical wonder was a relatively low-level 1.5GHz Pentium 4
> > with 384MB of
> > RAM and ATI's RADEON 9700 3-D graphics card."  I wouldn't
> > exactly call that
> > a low-level in my experiance, and if I'm wrong then I'm worried (my
> > computer being a P3 933MHz, 128MB RAM, ATI Rage128 Pro.)  And why does
> > having a window bend under the "speed" of being dragged
> > across the screen
> > aid my computing experiance? :\
>
>
>
> Longhron will be available in the beginning of 2005. Imagine the horse power
> of the machines for sale at the time (a year is a century in computer
> revolution). They will be about 6 Ghz according to my estimtion using the
> Moore's Law, although GHz is not the only factor for speed.
>
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