Re: [NTLK] Html rendering on Newton

In a previous message, Adriano typed vigorously:

>will bring you the results of a really professional html rendering
>speed test calculated on a MessagePad130 connected to the internet
>using a Nokia pcmcia.
>
>On my experience, a MessagePad 2100 doesn't render so better than that,
>so it seems that the problem was never been in hardware as i thought
>it was, but it's related to the internet "stack" itself, the Newton
>Internet Enabler (NIE) package.

I don't think you can make this general an assumption regarding the
rendering speed of the MP2100. There is no clear information regarding
how 'clean' the MP130 installation was (probably close to factory).
Comparing this test to what a fully loaded MP2100 can do would be flawed.
Without being able to test an MP2100 under the same conditions, you
cannot determine where the performance bottleneck is.

Agreed, NIE isn't perfect, but neither is the data provided by this test.

g.

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