PC still playing Amiga catchup

[meega]

BTW does anyone know WHY Windows and linux need a swapfile even if they use so little available RAM?  I know you can force the swap file size to zero in Windows, but I suspect it still uses a swap file.  And AFAIK Linux won't install without a swap file partition.

Maybe you should try finding out.

[meega]

Yeah... I did some reaction-time tests on a BBC micro when I was about 15 years old. These days they "red-flag" sprinters who respond to the gun in less than 0.1s, because it's counted as jumping the gun - but I was able to *average* about 0.08s, with lots of 0.04-0.06s, and that included making a decision as to which hand to use to press a key in response to a square appearing on either the left or right side of the screen. If you were less than 95% accurate on 100 tests then the whole caboodle was discarded - it assumed you were guessing.

[meega]

You are making an absurd claim.  PC timers also claim a certain accuracy and their crystals are subject to same conditions as Amiga timers.  And that has NOTHING to do with latency.  Latency is the hardware deviating by a few cycles from the exact point when the event was supposed to occur.

Are you sure?

[meega]

Color me amazed that vBulletin seems to be readily handling 1 thread with over a thousand replies.  Xoops would have croaked by now.

vBulletin can cope with a lot more than that... More than 2600 posts in this vBulletin-based forum thread and that isn't remotely "big" as far as threads go. The Tech Report's monster thread is currently at 487 pages with 14,500+ posts (it's "part 2" - they locked "part 1" at 477 pages when things got a little slow due to the server having difficulty parsing the thing, but phpBB has improved a bit since then, so they might not lock the second instalment yet, time will tell).