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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/12/02
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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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