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To: Justin Banks who wrote (52)10/2/1997 9:04:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen   of 74
 
Justin- I tried all 3. Bus, PS/2, Serial. The problem is that
mouse sensing is basic. A user shouldn't need to tell it or
even need to know. The not for profit development model has
a big proble where the big stuff gets done (Linux had no problem
detecting my SCSI card or CD-ROM) but the little things don't.
A for profit Microsoft pays someone and tells them to fix the
damn thing.

IDE drives retail for a few bucks less than SCSI but interestingly,
in the used market where a buy most of my stuff you pay closer to
retail for IDE than SCSI because there are more IDE buyers.
On the controller side its a different story. IDE is far cheaper
of the retail side ($100 vs maybe $500+. for a caching controller).
So the DPT for $320 was a terrific buy but I have to conserve
capital to stay in business and I just made an expotential leap
in productivity with my dual IDE caching controllers and PPro
system with 75mhz bus.

I run my $200. PPRO 180 at 225mhz (3x75mhz) and now keep all
my active OS and development files under control of the hardware
cache. Static files are stored on a fast non cached SCSI drive.
My time from edit to test is about 3 seconds. 1 sec compile
1 sec link and 1 sec program load. I'm talking almost fully
developed 35,000 line C application being developed as if I
were using an interpreter while running at full compiled speed.

I'm rethinking my whole statgegy. We're about to enter a Golden
Age of application developement with mature languages and the
performance I mentioned above. I think this will take place over the next 10 years.
As far as hardware goes (and I'm only thinking desktop which is
what I develop for) the incremental gain of buying a top of the
line processor is not worth the time saved if you wait to buy
it later.

I'll still try to get UNIX up but my top priority is writing applications
as fast as possible.

Harvey
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