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From: hans@ditmela.oz (Hans Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
Message-ID: <7990@ditmela.oz>
Date: 15 Nov 89 07:01:27 GMT
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Reply-To: hans@ditmela.oz.au (Hans Eriksson)
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In article <14211@jumbo.dec.com> mcjones@srcf0a.UUCP (Paul McJones) writes:
> Back in July I observed similar slowdowns with Excel 2.2 on a Mac 
> Plus.  I sent queries both to comp.sys.mac and to the internet Info-Mac 
...
>     1.  Excel 2.2 running on a Mac Plus or SE (both of which have 
>     a 68000 processor) performs many operations (including starting 
...
>     2.  Excel 2.2 has substantially less space available for open 
>     documents on a 1MB machine, and thrashes much more noticeably 
...
> Has anyone compared the performance of versions 1.5 and 2.2 on a 
> Macintosh Portable, which also uses the 68000 processor (but at a 

Seems like you are saying that Excel 2.2 is faster
than 1.5 on the faster machines.

I tried 2.2 on our MacII and SE/30 and it was slow
as a dead dog also on those machines.

Has ANYONE run faster with 2.2 than 1.5, or at
least at comparable speed?

/hans
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