Subject: Re: Lispworks deliver .exe file
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 22 May 2001 01:02:13 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <9ecdql$a67s8$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
James Hague <jamesh_fake@volition-inc.com> wrote:
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| It's typically more like "When I press ^F (find) in Microsoft Word,
| there's a two second pause before the dialog appears on my 333MHz
| Pentium II."  Is "Get a faster machine!" really a proper response
| in such cases?
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No, of course not. The proper response is to dump Windows and run your
choice of Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/BSDI on it together with your
favorite Common Lisp, and suddenly your system will seem *much* faster!!


-Rob

p.s. And don't throw away those old 33 MHz '486 systems, either!
Running any of the Unices, they're plenty fast as dedicated firewalls...

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