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Re: OS 8 ON A PERFORMA 630

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From: Triton
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00
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In article <1dn4rcn.1dqeqti1pxq8w0N@p6.nas2.is3.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:

> 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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Subject: Re: OS 8 ON A PERFORMA 630
Date: 1999/03/04
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