the myth of the slow computer

do you know how fast a computer actually is?

that old 486 which says it's running at 66kHz... that actually means it's capable of executing 66,000 instructions PER SECOND.

so why in blue hell are we always waiting for the computer to stop hanging!?

what is going on behind that beguiling "rolling hills" wallpaper which windows xp likes to display?

i think i do believe that today's gigahertz processors ARE really capable of billion calculations per second. i think it's the PROGRAMMING which i'm not so sure about.

especially windows.

what a deceptively simple name! i wonder what kind of programming mess lies behind that. the jumbled code which takes on a life of its own by jumbling itself up each time the clueless user attempts to click something. haven't you ever wondered why we need to defrag the harddisks and why we need third-party registry clean-up apps?

your computer isn't slow. it's not trying to screw you over with blue screens of death. no... the computer is only as slow as the programming installed.

microsoft created the myth of the slow computer.