Which Way Is The Site Better

[Scorpiorefugee]

Hi Glen,

 

Your sacrifice is much appreciated. As an ex mainframe programmer I am eternally annoyed at the way in which pc packages and tools are rigged in such a way as to cause maximum usage of resource without allowing simple and hardware efficient solutions to requirements, but then it is only a glorified games machine. :( :lol: :lol:

 

I gave up when someone showed me a device that used thousands of times more power, works at half the speed and failed several times a day and told me that it was the way forward. :(

 

I expect that everyone has heard about microsoft inventing a super car that outdid everything else on the market but had one annoying fault. It would break down several times a day and the only way to get it started was to tow it back to the beginning and start again. (Apologies to all who are sick of that but it's the only thing that keeps me sane.)

 

Whatever happened to DOS? ;)

 

Ron.

[gregers]

they split up,oh sorry thought you said bros lol

[NikpV]

Whatever happened to DOS? :( \

 

umm I went from Vax vms to CPM to dos 3.3 IIRC vs 4 was awful - buggy as hell 5 was better and 6 befoe starting seriously on windows 3.0 a right PITA 3.1, 3.11, 95 ... at some point I think about windows 95 - millienium (didn't have) dos disappeared up to 95 it was still there as vs 7 I think. Were you asking about MsDos or Dr Dos???

[Scorpiorefugee]

Bros????? Who or what was that? :lol:

 

MSDOS or DOS. Actually, not much good on its own but at least it didn't consume resourses just for the sale of it.

 

I spent my time using RPG and Cobol on IBM main and midrange.

 

25 users with subsecond response times on something around the power of an old BBC home computer. Now that was efficiency and it could run for a year at a time without restarting.

 

And without having to reach for a damned mouse every few seconds, those users could really bash data.

 

Still there's progress for you. :(

 

Ron

[Dave-G]

Uh - so is this the reason the site has got so appallingly slow?

[Dave-G]

Well after posting the above I found two of the other forums I use were also slow - but another was not much slower than usual. Seems it may be my connection speed again.

[Scorpiorefugee]

Just one last word about speed. To me, it seems a good deal more lively now we're back on the old version.

 

Ron.

[Gteuk]

eh old version, the reason the site is faster and more responsive is I upgraded the server on tuesday, put more memory in it and increased the incoming pipe.

 

I also got rid of some processes that are not needed for the server to allow more resources for PHP then I isolated those resources so the server cannot use them for anything else,

 

I must admit though I throttled the bandwidth per user so everyone gets an equal share and those that try to use up resources can't they just get cut off :(