Xref: utzoo rec.music.synth:22390 comp.music:3509 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!mips!smsc.sony.com!dce From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.music Subject: Re: Amiga or Mac? Message-ID: <1991Jun14.032907.14584@smsc.sony.com> Date: 14 Jun 91 03:29:07 GMT References: <12411@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA Lines: 21 In article kudla@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: >nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: >>You reckon? I'm using an SE/30, I admit, but MIDI Manager 2.0.1, PatchBay, >>Performer, a large patch librarian and System 7.0 all run with acceptable >>performance. > >Is the LC an 030 machine? I don't think so.... thought it was basically a >Mac Classic with a color monitor. Hold on a second. I believe that the LC has a 16MHz 68020, just like the original Mac II. From what I understand, it's only a little slower than a stock Mac II, which is only a little slower than a IIcx, which is a little slower than a IIx. The SE/30 is supposedly faster with disk accesses, but not otherwise. In any case, I have run MIDI Manager on my Mac II for quite some time, and it works just fine (I currently have a cache card in it, which makes it slightly faster than a IIx for some things). The biggest slowdown you run into is color. As you might expect, it takes more system resources to draw on color screens. You can get faster response by switching to mono mode, though it isn't significant.