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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 4 Jun 91 14:47:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.025024.823@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>  BTW, I think System 7.0 is a big failure/joke. It is incredibly slow
>on anything less than an 030 with lots of ram. I've been reading
>many accounts of users running even a simple application with a clock
>program in the background and having the system become incredibly 
>jerky and slow. One user in comp.sys.mac.system accounts of running
>tetris and "superclock" resulting in the game becoming really sluggish
>(on an LC). This  is pathetic, I can run multiple copies of tetris on
>my A500 with a term program, and a clock and all of them run at near
>full speed.

I think you don't know what you are talking about.  7.0 runs just fine on
a Mac Plus with 2 meg.  (Well, I guess "lots" wrt memory is relative.)

I love this.  On the basis of ONE report about problems with 2 OTHER programs
you have decide that System 7.0 is to blame.  You oughta go into tech support,
where you'd be a god.

At what bit depth was the LC running?  Was it running any other inits?  Was
your A500 running a graphic shell?  Was it running an outline font display?

Maybe you just know your A500 better than most Mac users know their machines.