🚀 go-pugleaf

dea@astral.magic.ca (Don Andrachuk) wrote:
[System 8 and 680x0s]
>[snip]
>> And of course 95 would not run well on a 386.  Just as System 7.5 runs
>> like a dog on a 030 machine. 
>
>Pardon?? 
>
>I'm using System 7.5 on my '030 IIci and it runs somewhat *faster* than
>System 7.1 did. I have seen postings in comp.sys.mac.system from folks
>that are using System 7.5 on 68000-based Mac Plus machines (1985 vintage)
>and are happy with the relative performance of the OS.
>
>Check your facts, David.

    Except the fact that it takes over a minute to get about 5 half
decent extensions and the desktop to finally arrive on your screen.
I'm using System 7.5 on my '030 IIci and it takes up more of my valuable
memory than System 7.1 did.  VM?  Not quite.  I'm not that daring.
    I can time my IIfx right now and I will guarantee with 8 extensions
(minor ones, actually) it will take at least a minute to land me into
the desktop.  7.5.1, of course.

>> On the 386, with 8 megs, you can also get
>> a decent cheap ISA accelerator that would help out with graphics speed
>> greately.  Windows 3.1 was quite acceptable on my 386-33 when I used
>> it, and blew the equivalent Mac's away at the time (LC, for example)
>
>Again - check your facts, David.
>
>I would *hope* your 386-33 would "blow away" the LC since it is a 16MHz
>68020 machine - the closest equiavlent PC would be a 16 MHz 80286 PC. 
>
>My *25MHz* 68030 IIci will "blow away" that 386-33 of yours. No problemo.

      Not quite.  My *25*MHz 68030 IIci wouldn't.  Even with all those
accelerators (hardware and software plus FPU) I've installed.