Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bigsur!bcars222!banerd
From: banerd@bcars222.bnr.ca (Brad Banerd)
Subject: My SE+7.0 seems like "molasses in January"?
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.211249.19433@bigsur.uucp>
Keywords: system 7, laserwriter LS, speed 
Sender: news@bigsur.uucp
Reply-To: banerd@bcars222.bnr.ca (Brad Banerd)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 21:12:49 GMT


I have an SE with 4M and recently tried out system 7.  I found that a test page of mine took 2min30sec to print on my laserwriter LS compared to 45sec under 6.0.7 .  I also found that the system even had trouble keeping up with fast typing in WP 2.0.1 .  I was forced to roll back to 6.0.7 in order avoid being throttled by my wife!	

q.1 Why would system 7 be so slow? (cache was 128k,"regular" SE(ie"leaded"))
    Since few people seem to be mentioning speed as a problem could it be    something peculiar to my setup?  I would be delighted to find out that system 7.0 is useful to Macs without the 030.

q.2 Can system 7 do background printing for my LS?	

Perhaps these are simple minded questions but the apple reps available to us
seem to be only a tiny bit ahead on the learning curve for 7.0

Thanks:  Brad

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