On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 02:21 AM, the pickle wrote:
> At 20:17 +0000 on 31/03/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hm? The shadowing ROM to ram helped very dramatically on peecees.
>> On Mac, all the going ons is almost constantly through that ROM I
Shyeh and made every application under the sun goes belly up all the
time when, thanks to Microsoft's fantastic OS, a poorly (??) written app
landed in the RAM space where the ROM was stored. Exclude statements
help but rob you of valuable RAM so ROM Shadowing was best avoided on
PeeCees. FWIW many later games and programs requested it be turned off
completely and refused to run until it was. Just had to add that little
outburst ;).
> You might think so, but people didn't see noticeable performance
> increases
> with the PPCs. Might have been a poorly-coded application, but I really
> don't think the ROMs are *that* slow.
I also doubt it, although part of the trouble could have been the switch
from 68k to PPC code on OSs.
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