Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: My SE+7.0 seems like "molasses in January"? Message-ID: <89wh4fh@rpi.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: Date: 7 Jun 91 16:24:24 GMT Lines: 26 In article km2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth E. Mohnkern) writes: > > Brad Banerd@bcars222.bnr writes: > >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. > > > > For what it's worth, I can sympathize with you. > > I have a similar setup: SE, 4M, using system 7. I switch on the Mac and > go get a drink, go to the bathroom, see what's on tv, then go back to > the Mac to wait (still longer) for it to finish booting. Whew! > Everything I do in the finder is slow: copying files, opening folders, > getting info... I have an SE too. It doesn't seem at all slower (or at least, it doesn't seem noticably slower under 7 as compared to 6.0.7). Perhaps you have virtual memory turned on? I also have 4Meg in my SE, maybe that's helping me out. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA