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Article #325Re: OS 8 ON A PERFORMA 630
From: Triton
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00
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how did you get that lion pic at the top of your window!?!? 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,14bd105b46f23fb4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: thomastriton@WeHateSpam.yahoo.com (Triton) Subject: Re: OS 8 ON A PERFORMA 630 Date: 1999/03/04 Message-ID: <thomastriton-0403990023120001@pistolero.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 450959341 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pistolero.demon.co.uk:212.228.148.69 References: <36C20A7D.7A9E3669@decibel.demon.nl> <36C2CCFE.EA219C12@cs.strath.ac.uk> <1dn328t.pjf3hnip5bwmN@p32.nas3.is3.u-net.net> <36C43C7E.7F3FCFC4@cs.strath.ac.uk> <1dn4rcn.1dqeqti1pxq8w0N@p6.nas2.is3.u-net.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 920506850 nnrp-06:8714 NO-IDENT pistolero.demon.co.uk:212.228.148.69 Organization: Triton Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac