Brandy looking in mirror sees smug look after reading this!
Thanks guys!
Brandy
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Subject: [Duo] Re: A range of 2300c questions
> Actually I meant 8.5. But, I 'm surprised to hear that 8.5 isn't 100% PPC
> native as Apple advertised ("like having a whole new computer for $100"
they
> said). Perhaps you would elaborate a little more. Regardless, I find 8.6
runs
> quite zippily on my 2300. Definitely faster than 8.1, which was much
slower
> than 7.6.1. Although I doubt this affects Netscape one iota.
>
> As far as Speed Doubler is concerned, I have not noticed any "real"
> improvements. In fact, it slows startup to a virtual standstill as it
loads. I
> suspect that they will update for OS 9, but it is also probably the last
> relevant OS that would require Speed Doubler in this age of blazing fast
G4s.
> The pre-G3's were arguably the last computers to really benefit from Speed
> Doubler and OS 9 spells the end of the line for them. I truly can't
imagine
> trying to speed up my G3 or G4 under OS X. Anybody know if OS X will even
> support 68k code emulation (which seems to be Speed Doubler's sole reason
for
> being)?
>
> Marc Sira wrote:
> > But I'm tickled by the "all PowerPC native"
> > reference; 8.1 is perhaps 40% native code when running on a modern
> > Powermac, and considerably less on the 2300. In fact I recall some
huzzah
> > when 8.5 or 8.6 was released, upon the realisation that it now contained
> > more than 50% compiled PPC code (just in terms of what was included, not
> > necessarily what would actually execute on any given machine).
> >
> > For that matter even OS 9 isn't quite there yet (maybe 80-90%? I'm
> > guessing...); 9.0 is pretty fast in many ways on the 2400, but the loss
of
> > Speed Doubler is still noticeable in several places
> David
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