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Subject: Re: price of accelerators (Was Re: system 7, first impressions)
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Date: 27 May 91 19:47:10 GMT
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In article <1991May25.052620.23582@neon.Stanford.EDU>
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
>In article <1991May25.013620.26769@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don
Gillies) writes:
>|> Yes, system 7.0 is sllllooooooow!  I'd say it's noticeably slower on a
>|> Mac II.  Those of you SE/Classic owners thinking of upgrading --
>|> consider a 25Mhz board or better yet, an 040 CPU.  The most irritating
>|> thing is that boot time seems to have increased by 5-10 seconds at
>|> least.  This will not be good for people developing software.
>
>I don't notice any particular slowdown on my mere sub-16MHz
>IIcx, barring movement of icons in the Finder and maybe a few
>things I don't do often. Boot time doesn't seem to have changed
>noticeably. I've heard this complaint about sluggishness though
>from a Classic owner. I wonder if some machines are hit more
>than others. Could it be that some optimizations were made for
>68030 or colour machines, that don't help the lesser models?
>-- 
>Philip Machanick
>philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
>

my 2cents worth...

on my IIci, Sys 7 seems to me to be quite a bit faster, especially for bootup,
and for anything having to do with the finder. yes, i know this is against
prevailing opinion. maybe it has to do with my old 6.0.3 system getting too big
- ie, now i have done an enforced housecleaning. but whatever the reason, the
Sys 7 i now have seems to me to be faster.

  ---jon---