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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: My SE+7.0 seems like "molasses in January"?
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Date: 7 Jun 91 16:24:24 GMT
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In article <AcHtH1W00Uzx813vp2@andrew.cmu.edu> 
           km2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth E. Mohnkern) writes:
> 
> Brad Banerd@bcars222.bnr writes:
> >q.1 Why would system 7 be so slow? (cache was 128k,"regular" SE(ie"leaded"))
> >    Since few people seem to be mentioning speed as a problem could it
> >    be something peculiar to my setup?  I would be delighted to find out
> >    that system 7.0 is useful to Macs without the 030.
> > 
> 
> For what it's worth, I can sympathize with you.
> 
> I have a similar setup: SE, 4M, using system 7. I switch on the Mac and
> go get a drink, go to the bathroom, see what's on tv, then go back to
> the Mac to wait (still longer) for it to finish booting. Whew!
> Everything I do in the finder is slow: copying files, opening folders,
> getting info...

I have an SE too.  It doesn't seem at all slower (or at least, it doesn't seem  
noticably slower under 7 as compared to 6.0.7).  Perhaps you have virtual  
memory turned on?  I also have 4Meg in my SE, maybe that's helping me out.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA
