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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: 7.0 on a IIci is faaast...
Message-ID: <1991May16.160553.3939@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 May 91 16:05:53 GMT
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Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes:

>norton@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Norton Chia) writes:

>NC> My IIci doesn't look to bad
>NC> either, altho' I do detect a slight degradation in response. Maybe it's my
>NC> scepticism that something so good can't also have good performance :)

>     One big speed difference is that Sys7 is much FASTER finding files on my 
>Rodime Cobra 210.  Note that I was running Desktop Manager before; when I 
>converted to Sys7, my IIci slooowly rebuilt my desktop, and now everything is 
>lightning fast (or as fast as it can be with 7,283 items).

  System 7 is also much faster than 6.0.7 with any SANE numeric work
on my IIci.  Try running Speedometer 2.5's Whetstones test without the
math CPU.  System 7 is close to 50% faster than 6.0.7.
  I imagine this is because Apple started using the coprocessor chip a little
more efficiently in their SANE implementation.



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