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Article #11152Re: System 7 slowness
From: John Fratus
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 14:04
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 14:04
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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)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nih-csl!fratus From: fratus@niaid.nih.gov (John Fratus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: System 7 slowness Message-ID: <1635@nih-csl.nih.gov> Date: 27 Jun 91 14:04:08 GMT References: <20835@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <56980006@hpindwa.cup.hp.com> Sender: news@nih-csl.nih.gov Lines: 22