Re: more power, more speed

[Gregory Keith <GKeith -at- DELRINA -dot- COM>]

>please, please, brag to me about it if you have a "top of the line" pc,
>and also let me know what types and sizes of documents you develop with
>it.

We've got Pentium P90s and 486/33s and there's a world of difference between
the two:

Loading and opening a document? To pull down a WinZipped filed from the
network, extract all the files to a temp directory, open the document in
Ventura, takes about 10 minutes total with my 486. Same procedure takes
about 1.5 minutes on our Pentium.

Printing? Generating an encapsulated postscript file of 8MB takes approx. 15
minutes on my 486. It takes about 45 seconds on our Pentium.

Storage space? Many of our 486s don't have a hard drive big enough to store
all of the files for a complete manual. A 1.5 gig hard drive does.

Compiling? Someone recently posted a figure for compiling their huge WinHelp
project (8-10MB) on a 486 at (I believe) three hours versus 20 minutes with
a Pentium.

Unfortunately, Pentiums are still in relatively short supply, so we don't
all have one. But for processor-intensive chores, they're a great
improvement over the 486.

Greg

Gregory Keith
Documentation Specialist
Delrina Canada
gkeith -at- delrina -dot- com

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