From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/12/03
Date: 1999-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7vogc7lkks.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 825vj6$9n1$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> 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.
Aidan is writing from a UK address, and things tend to be a bit more
expensive here (especially if you are a home user and don't get
corporate discounts).
The sort of machine you describe is the subject of reviews in the Jan
2000 PC Mag., the editor's choice is UKP 1299, about $2000. +VAT at
17.5%. The cheapest was UKP 1119.
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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
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Simon Wright [this message]
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 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` reason67
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
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 ` Robert Dewar
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
1999-11-30 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 ` Andreas Winckler
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
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David W. Glessner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-11-26 0:00 Tom_Hargraves
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
[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
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