From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,39e272d357c68416 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Simon Wright Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java? Date: 1999/12/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 556608812 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 References: <11f733ec.57d88b68@usw-ex0107-042.remarq.com> <384127A5.61431A14@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> <0a0133f8.3baf10c0@usw-ex0101-001.remarq.com> <81s370$7am$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <0a0133f8.7900d89e@usw-ex0102-015.remarq.com> <3842C457.CBC87C2@hso.link.com> <20c2f050.4d65ccc7@usw-ex0101-003.remarq.com> <825vj6$9n1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 944331305 nnrp-01:14506 NO-IDENT pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 Organization: At Home Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Date: 1999-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: > In article , > 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.