Re: [NTLK] Newbie Convert from the Past.

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 13:27:43 EST

on 03/11/02 08:34, Jon Glass at jonglass_at_usa.net wrote:

> on 11/3/02 6:59 AM, Laurent Daudelin at laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net wrote:
>
>> Do yourself a favor and try the 2000. It should be 5 times faster and as
>> accurate as the 130.
>
> But less heap. I jumped from a 120 to a 130, and could never sacrifice that
> heap, which I hear the 2000 does. Of course, the best is the 2100, but would
> cost him... I would try both and see which you prefer. The 2k series is
> definitely faster, but heap is important too.

Well, I forgot to mention an *upgraded* 2000 or a 2100. Jon is right that a
bare 2000 has actually less heap than a 130 which severely limits what you
can do on it and the amount of information you can manage with it.

-Laurent. 

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bytesexual /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj.: [rare] Said of hardware, denotes
willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian
format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI
problem. 

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