From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/12/02
Date: 1999-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <825vj6$9n1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn84amrj.22s.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk
In article <slrn84amrj.22s.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>,
aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk wrote:
> would run on a modest (by current standards) machine (my p166
> with 48Mb of RAM handles it all with only a little discomfort
> caused by whole screen redraws).
Not just modest, but drastically obsolete. For $1000 you can
get a 550Mz Athlon machine with 128 meg of memory that
conservatively should be a full four times faster than the
machine you are using. This is of course also off topic, but
it is worth reminding everyone that remarkable amounts of
computing power are available cheaply for Ada development
purposes. We recently (for about $2000) acquired a 750MHz
Athlon machine with 256 meg of memory and 30 gig of disk.
This machine runs a full two times faster than a 450MHz
Pentium III (thus the Athlon is equivalent to about a
900MHz Pentium III for this kind of processing, which
involves compiling, running tests etc). Be careful of
benchmarks in PC magazine etc, these benchmarks are heavily
weighted by graphics mucking and other stuff that is quite
irrelevant to typical Ada development.
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Before you buy.
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1999-11-26 0:00 Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java? jim_snead
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-28 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-28 0:00 ` mike_zebrowski
1999-11-28 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-29 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-30 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-03 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-11-29 0:00 ` reason67
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` reason67
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-12-01 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Mark Hertel
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-12-01 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-02 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-18 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David W. Glessner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-11-26 0:00 Tom_Hargraves
[not found] ` <01bf3857$22ca59a0$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Ed Falis
[not found] ` <01bf38cc$04d205e0$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-27 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-18 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-11-26 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-11-26 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-12-12 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Henrik Delin
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