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From: blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: TWgs
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Date: 26 Apr 89 05:04:54 GMT
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In article <8904250856.AA00697@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-simasd!pro-avalon!pro-nebulous!rick.glisson@nosc.mil writes:
> [Bits about speed of TWgs]
> Installation is a little tricky, you HAVE to use slot 3.
>(The ads said 4 would also work).  Make SURE that the plug that fits in the
>CPU socket MUST be sitted firmly (One guy broke a pin).  I had to sit it 4
>times before it would boot properly.
	Hmm, I didn't have any problems installing mine - the worst part was
yanking the 65816, as it was very firmly seated, and the motherboard was
bending up when I tried to pull it. This morning, though, I got the "There's
something wrong with your TWgs" message, which scared the hell out of me, as
it was one day old, and I didn't remember how the 65816 went back in. I opened
my //gs up, and the cable which runs from the card to the CPU socket was a
bit loose.
>problem I have is that I can't make it run at 1.0 MHz!  Normally that wouldn't
>mcept for time dependant games, ie Bards Tale, Border Zone.  AE is
>checking it out, but I told them they had better be caught up on back orders
>before mine gets anywhere near Texas!
	Yeah, really, I'm still hearing that places are quoting 4-6 weeks for
delivery.
>Thanks for answering Jason, your address is something else!  Good thing it's
>easy to reply!
	You mean me? (I don't think I've seen any other Jasons running around
on the net) My address is fairly simple, but if it got expanded into bang
paths (wherever!otherplace!etc) then it could be kinda scary looking...
Anyways, doesn't matter much...

	I haven't gotten around to testing the speed much, but it looks as if
it's effectively twice as fast as a normal //gs - MicroEMACS is actually
useable now (yip!!!), and the APW linker moves along somewhat respectably
now. The Finder is useful now! Only problem I've run into so far is that the
menus items blink way too fast - it would seem that the system software folks
at Apple screwed up a wee bit with this one by not using TickCount() (or
whatever it's called) to restrain the menu blinking (somewhat understandable).
It'd be nice if they'd do just that before they release the next System Disk.
I haven't yet used APW's editor, as I've gotten out of the habit of using it,
but I imagine it'd be a reasonable speed now (no more snoring while it
scrolls). ShrinkIt FLYS! (It was fast before, it's insane now) I'm still being
suprised by things being as fast as they are... One thing it doesn't speed
up as much as I would've liked is the boot time - especially since quite a
bit of the time GS/OS spent booting was not accessing the disk (I've got a
ST277N HD), but it did cut some of the time off. Aztec C looks like it might
just be tolerable now (gasp).
>-Rick Glisson, Atlanta
>Rick.Glisson@Pro-Nebulous  CI$: 71540,110  ALPE: Rick Gliss  BIX: JGLISSON

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		Jason Blochowiak (blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu)
			"Not your average iconoclast..."
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