How fast is "fast enough"

[melott]

A6000 wrote:
We have 020's at 14 mhz w/FastRam, 030's at 25 to 50 mhz, 040's at 25 to 40 mhz, and 060's at 50 to 90 mhz,

Now, putting aside the view that a computer can never be "too fast", what would be the minimum useable processor and speed.

I don't necessarily see it as a CPU speed problem.
I see what the programmers did on the old C=64 with a
1 mhz 6502 processor and what they are doing on a 2 gig PC.
As I see it, its the programmers that have gotten LAZY.
They don't optimize their code for speed, if it works its
good enough (the processor will take care of speed).

Mel

[melott]

I have a WarpEngine 040 @ 40 mhz running OS 3.9
in my A3000 and it does all I want it to just fine.

IMHO Lazy and inefficent programmers are the problem.
I'm not refering to the hobbiests who dabble and write
some small util or something like that. I'm refering to
the Pro's who write for a living.
Look what was done with a 1 mhz C=64. No room for garbage
on that machine, they wrote good tight code.
The faster the CPU's get the sloppier the coder will be.

Mel