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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Earlie who wrote (39980)12/18/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Shane M  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
Earlie,

great post and thanks for your insight. Have a few things to bounce off of you.

1. I work in a corporate LAN environment on NT. We're running Pentium 133s w/ 32 meg ram on our systems. We're pretty heavy users - 10+ apps running at once at times. I find the slow performance intolerable to the degree that by the time my system has responded I sometimes forget what I was doing (20 to 30 second lags). --Not that I'm sure of what I'm doing anyhow<g> In my department at least there is a serious performance problem w/ PCs in the LAN environment. My home PC on Windows 95 works much better, but I suspect that hogs like NT and big programs like MS Office are causing frustration in similar office environments as this.

2. Voice recognition. I tried Dragon's recent version and found it to be almost good enough. I wouldn't use it because I can type better, but voice recognition is nearly viable IMO.

3. Internet speed is still the crucial issue to me. Speed that up and then processing power at the server level becomes a bottleneck. Do you agree/disagree? I can see heavy demand coming for internet servers, as more of what I consider "my computer" becomes located and maintained on a web server somewhere. Personalized channels like Yahoo or Excite are just the beginning. In 10 to 20 years I can see many of my files/programs/etc being based on the web.

Thanks for any comments,

Shane

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