Re: Yet another junior-doc quickguide revision

["Richard Smedley" <richard.smedley@futurenet.co.uk>]

Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:45:59PM +0000, Richard Smedley wrote:
> > How about "60MHz or faster"? As long as you have sufficient RAM most
> > window managers are bearable on a 486 at 66MHz
> 
> Different people have different tolerances for "bearable".  Not only
> that, but CPUs of different families don't compare well by MHz alone.

Hello Ben,

Of course. I was reaching for a rough guide that wasn't ia386-specific :-)
That's part of the problem with mentioning pentium and co.

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> An intrepid low-end
> hardware user who pushes their hardware to the limits and really
> wants to run Gnome or KDE in spite of the limitations is going to
> ignore my recommendation and try it anyway just to see if it is really
> that bad.  My note is not for them.

Fair point.

> I can throw the word "probably" in there if it
> makes you feel better. :)

Now there's a word with which I'm always happy. :-))

- Richard


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