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In article <sanbart-ya023680002207972352580001@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
sanbart@ix.netcom.com (Sanford Barton) wrote:

> I'm a new MAC user, switched over from a PC (no shit, I really did!).
> I work with UNIX workstations and servers all day at work, and needed
> less stress, less maintenance, and more enjoyment from my home machine.
> So I bought a UMAX C500 clone and have been VERY pleased with its
> performance and ofcourse MacOS.  But I wanted to do some light development
> with the Java 1.1 JDK and threw a purchace on VirtualPC to run a
> development environment I'm comfortable with and run the JDK 1.1 software
> which isn't available on the Mac yet.
> 
> Well, I installed Virtual PC on my 180mhz 603e and performance is lousy,
> and unuseable.  For example, I experiance delays of about 1 second when
> traversing each entry on the start menu of win95.

You must have Level 2 cache.  512K should do.  I can't say that VPC
is fast but it is usable on a 180.

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