In article <titlv4t67t1qefhlqv2jj991s437964...@4ax.com>, chrisv <chr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Do you really think that "ratios of slowness" need to be calculated? > Sheesh, man, you're running off a CD. You can hear it and see the > results. You just throw-out the results of the "speed test" because > you're running off a freaking CDROM. NO ONE is going to assume or > expect that the speed is _at all_ representative of what it's like > when it's running off HD. > > Jeezez. Most people aren't THAT stupid, much less 99% of them. > > >> I am not exactly unversed with computers (having written my own > >> bootstrap loaders and BIOSes and target compilers and whatnot). And > >> still I was quite unsure what difference to expect when installing > >> Knoppix on hard disk as compared to running from CD. > > So? Is it not reasonable to assume that a PC operating system would > be "reasonably responsive" when installed on a modern PC? > > >> And yes, the impression "sluggish and basically not useful" can come > >> from a live CD. > > For the exceptionally dull-witted, maybe. Most would recognize that > it's a limited trial, amazing in that it works at all!
I can't hear the CD drive on my PC. My PC is under my desk, and I usually have a TV or radio on when I'm doing stuff on the PC. Furthermore, the average person only runs kind of thing on a PC directly from a CD--the installer program that comes with the Windows programs he has purchased. A decently constructed installation CD will mostly just be copying stuff off the CD, not seeking a lot, and should be laid out so that goes fast. Hence, installation programs won't give the average person a good opportunity to notice the CDs are slow at seeking. Finally, a decent fraction of consumers will have experience with running console games of CDs. They get decent performance there. There's simply nothing in their experience to indicate that a live CD should be slow, and there are things in their experience to indicate that it could be fast. -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss