John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 14 April 2005 03:02 am, James Knott wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
And now I get to do more shopping, this time for new hardware. I'm going to install 9.3 onto a new disk. I'm thinking of getting my first SATA drive (I've been a SCSI guy. I like the 10,000 RPM, Ultra160 drives--they're fast!).
Don't forget a 64 bit CPU!
Why? Are they any faster? (given the same clock)...
I remember well the move from 16 bit software to 32 bit software was in many situations a big let down, because it was no faster, and often slower, since every memory fetch had to be 32bits whether you needed it or not, as did each instruction.
In many cases, that was simply due to sloppy programming. There's no way a 286 can match today's systems.