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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> I did my submission to the Council yesterday using BL3 to
> run MagicPoint on a 486-50 laptop with 12mb RAM.  It ran
> smooth as silk.  No problems.  It booted straight into
> Linux using LILO and then automatically displayed the
> first slide (/etc/inittab executed startx instead of sh
> and then ~/.xinitrc ran mgp without a wm).
>
> The guy who followed me ran Windows PowerPoint and took
> forever to get it up and running.  The Council waited
> while Windows booted and he logged in.  They waited while
> he loaded PowerPoint and selected his presentation file.
> All in all, it took him 4-5 minutes to get up and running
> (it took me around 30 seconds).
>
> I was also pleased to see that the response time on my
> clunky $10 laptop was just as fast as his ultra-slim
> $1000 laptop.

Go BL!  Go Linux!  Corporate behemoths beware . . .  I don't suppose
he made the mistake of asking what sort of laptop you were using?

James