Clearly, but he also indicated (unless I mis-read) the drive image was on a remote computer. I would think the speed difference for a local drive vs networked drive to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 10:1. In the grand scheme of things that might not really matter (like adding an hour or two over the course of 3 days).
Derek On Jan 10, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > Part of the speed difference will be from emulation, of course. > > - Jonathan Morton > > On 10 Jan 2014 22:57, "Derek Morton" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ahhhh... Danamania... I wonder what she is up to these days? > > > > I am not sure I see the point in this exercise, though a great deal of my > > ideas are likely considered fruitless by most. > > > > How large is the image you are running it from? You mentioned possibly > > tweaking some of the settings - Perhaps having activity monitor autostart > > might help you see if there is anything going on (and cpu usage). Do you > > think much of the slow execution was due to network speed? Perhaps on a > > 950 with a nice fast hard drive... Big display... Over-clocked... > > > > I know our current machines are faster than older ones, but I really never > > thought the PPCs were THAT much faster than the 68Ks... 3 days to boot?!?! > > LOL > > > > Derek > > > > On Jan 8, 2014, at 10:44 PM, Scott Holder wrote: > > > > > Picking up where Danamania left off many years ago, I finally got around > > > to trying to boot Mac OS X on my 68k Mac. I've created a page about it so > > > far at http://iamscott.net/68kosx/ . So far I seem to have gotten farther > > > than she did! I can't say it's exactly usable, per se, but we'll see what > > > comes of it. I also really, really need to get a decent camera and some > > > studio lights... > > > > > > Scott H. > > > > -- > > -- -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
