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From: fratus@niaid.nih.gov (John Fratus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: System 7 slowness
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Date: 27 Jun 91 14:04:08 GMT
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bobj@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (Bob Joslin) writes:

>/ hpindwa:comp.sys.mac.apps / morgan@ooc.uva.nl (Chris Morgan/RIKS) /  2:41 am  Jun 19, 1991 /
>Hi all,

>>is it just me or has everyone noticed that system 7.0 is very slow. I can
>>almost count the characters of a window one by one as the OS builds it
>>up.

>Yes, it seems much slower to me.  Did someone add pauses in the new
>finder?  And Hypercard 2.1 also seems much slower.  FIND takes much
>longer than it used to!

>Maybe there are pauses put in on faster systems to make the Classics
>seem fast?  (A joke, I hope! :-)

If you're running a ci or si with built-in video, System 7 is _much_ slower
than System 6 if you don't raise the disk cache to fill up the first bank of
memory. I haven't found a way wround this. Can others with these computers
comment?

- John (fratus@niaid.nih.gov)