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From: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
To: dkelly@hiwaay.net
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Subject: Re: speed test
References: <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> <199708160330.WAA05664@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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dkelly@hiwaay.net shared with us:
> Narvi writes:
> >
> > > Not only is their gear proprietary, it's _slow_.  I'd prefer to run
> > > FreeBSD on a Multia.
> > 
> > That is *why* you port not to apple hardware but to CHRP. As for slow - I
> > don't really think the new CHRP machines are at least as quick as the
> > Pentium II 300, if not quicker. See for example the machines on
> > the Motorola Computer Group page...
> 
> I don't think Apple hardware is all that slow. What we are seeing
> lately is the MacOS has been terribly slow. System 7.6.1 runs apps
> much faster. System 8.0 is said to have similar performance gains.
> Apparently large portions of the system were (still are) emulated
> 68k code. Amazing.

(Hitting 'return' once in a while wouldn't hurt, you know.)

No, it's not that amazing. MacOS is a mess in the way it is written.
I don't have this from my own experience, but it's a bit weird to
be checking the serial port when you're reading from the floppy
disk. But then again, a byte might come in and you would have missed
that.

It's far more easier to port FreeBSD to Alpha than to port MacOS
to PPC.

- Peter