[Info-vax] Don't worry, HP's project Moonshot will save us

chris meru at devnull.com
Mon Apr 15 19:01:29 EDT 2013


On 04/11/13 06:53, Paul Sture wrote:

>
> My first experience with Linux was with a 300 MHz Pentium in 1999.  Even
> with 192MB RAM (which was plenty and then some for NT4) firing up X11
> was like watching paint dry.
>

So were sun and dec workstations of the time, though quite  bit faster than
a Vaxstation 2 GPX running decwindows, which was almost unusable. VWS was
quite a bit faster, fwir.

Regards,

Chris



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