Re: OS 8 ON A PERFORMA 630

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:00

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

> Rebecca and Rowland wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I do have personal experience with Mac OS 8 on non Power Macs and it is
> ok unless you want to use any of its "multitasking" features.

Righto - ta.  Nice to know for sure.

> Mac Os 7.6 is faster on 68K macs in my experience than Mac OS 8.  I have
> run 7.6 on a Performa 450 (25 Mhz 68030) and it was fine, faster than
> Mac OS 7.1 in some respects but that could have been due to the amount
> of RAM I had installed, ie 36Mb.

I went from 7.1 to 7.6 without increasing the RAM at the same time on my
475, and the speed increase was wonderful.

Rowland.

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