Re: Network Troubles

[Bruce Johnson]

> On Sep 5, 2015, at 2:33 PM, smac0031  wrote:
> 
> 
> When I run my DA G4 with contemporaneous software, from the early 2000s it 
> does well. If I run newer stuff it gags.

Yep, I think this right here is the biggest clue to your performance issues, 
sadly…modern software presumes a certain amount of computing horsepower, in 
terms of CPU and IO.

Thus it has always been; Applewriter ran well in 64K with 360K floppy disks on 
my Apple ][+; TextEdit takes 6.1 mb on disk and that doesn’t count that 
probably 50% of TextEdit’s code resides in standard OSX libraries elsewhere on 
disk. After opening a 2K text file, it takes 14 mb of RAM.

MS Word 2016 preview weighs in at 1.49 GB on disk...

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Re: Network Troubles

[smac0031]

I found a page at XLR8 your Mac where users reported dealing with non apple 
pci gigabit cards. It turns out a lot of them, or at least more than enough
are compatible with 10.4x without any special drivers. I got a used one 
coming from eBay.

I was looking at my hard drives and they are something like 80% full. I 
have 120GB and 320GB. I'm thinking about replacing the 120 with a 500 and I 
am
also looking for an i5 or i7 Macbook, 27 imac or a Mac Pro.

When I run my DA G4 with contemporaneous software, from the early 2000s it 
does well. If I run newer stuff it gags.

Thanks for the Help
Mark Murphy

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