Re: OS 8 ON A PERFORMA 630

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:00

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Archie Crawford CES1998 <acrawfor@cs.strath.ac.uk> wrote:

> Maarten van der Schot wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I was wandering i could install os 8 (or 8.5) on my Performa 630 ?
> > If not, wich os then ?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Maarten van der Schot (The Netherlands)
> 
> 
> On the Performa 630, which uses a 68LC040, you could install Mac OS 8.
> You could not install Mac OS 8.5 as it is only for Macs using the Power
> PC processors.  I would though not install Mac OS 8 unless you have good
> reason to do so as on non Power Macs it is slow.

Do you have personal experience of it being slow? - I've heard people
claim that 7.6 is slow on  68k Macs too, and it's the fastest version of
the OS I've tried on my 68LC040 Mac (not tried MacOS 8 or 8.1).

Rowland.

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