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Article #12478Re: 6100/60AV running System 9 is sloooooowwww :-(
From: Larry Anderson
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:00
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Steven Knowles wrote:
>
> I've upgraded my 6100/60AV to an iMac SE, and thought I'd network them which
> I've done.
>
> One reason I upgraded is that the 6100 had become unbearably slow (even with
> 72Mb of RAM), plus little disk space left.
>
> Getting the iMac on board, I was able to re-initialise the 6100 hard disk,
> and freshly instal it with System 9, expecting a drastic performance
> improvement. No such luck. It's slower than ever!
>
> Has anyone got any tips for how to speed things up on the 6100? I've changed
> it down from millions of colours to thousands, turned off a couple of
> unnecessary extensions, freed up lots of disk space. What more can I do?
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
Those G3 upgrade boards from Newer Technologies and Sonnet are relly
worthwhile upgrades, I have installed three so far and they are truly 8 times
or so faster than a base 6100, they make it faster then my 200mghz 4400.
Speed doubler helps a little if you want to go with just software.
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