From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:10:18 +0300 From: Harri Haataja Subject: Re: [9fans] Google Summer of Code In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <20060417201018.GA2564@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <47d9987fc30cd3a24354f7f7c0ad57c1@cat-v.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 388af8f6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 01:03:54PM -0700, Tim Wiess wrote: > > Google - sending the software world back to the stone age. > > My 2Ghz 1Gb RAM workstation struggles to allow me to read email with > > gmail... amazing how far backwards we can go! > i think your workstation has some serious unrelated issues. > a pII 450 i have can load gmail just fine. Likewise. Piii@533 and 256M ram (ecc, so I haven't thrown in just another dimm) won't run FF fast (does anything?) but gmail runs at tolerable pace and doesn't seem to be heavier than shuffling ordinary web pages. It is down a lot. My excuse for using it is testing, catching mail from people that insist on attachments etc. -- "What do you mean? A handgun is a standard tool for a sysadmin, isn't it?" -- Kurt M. Hockenbury, Scary Devil Monastery