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From: bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
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Subject: Re: Does your 48 seem much slower than normal?
Keywords: testimonial slow reset
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Date: 1 Apr 91 22:35:16 GMT
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In article <11402@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> ksmith@jarthur.claremont.edu (Karl J. Smith) writes:
->
->SUMMARY: If you think your 48 is running at 1/2 speed, you could
->be right. An ON-A-F reset can fix it.
->
->At first I thought I was just imagining things; my 48 seemed much slower than
->normal. When dividing two numbers on the stack, there was a small but
->noticeable pause. That didn't seem quite right, but I wasn't sure that there
->was anything really wrong, since there was no quantitative information to
->point to and say 'Ahah!' It was just naked-eye perception.
->
->I ignored it for a few days, and decided to look into the matter later.
->I assumed that if I did a backup then an ON-A-F reset, then a restore,
->the problem (if there really was one, and I wasn't just imagining things)
->would go away.

I noticed mine doing the same thing.  I just thought it was because I
didn't have much free memory, but an ON-A-F did indeed restore it to
full speed.  It's been okay ever since (a couple of weeks).  My 48 is a
rev. E and has about 3K of free memory.

Has anybody else seen this?
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