13 Jan
2006
13 Jan
'06
7:01 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Peterson" <pdp11 at saccade.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Not OT: Classic apps and the Intel Mac
What's really funny is how much -faster- the old
System 7.5 stuff runs
under this emulator on modern 1Ghz hardware. Mac OS boots in a second or
so; amazing to watch after all that time a dozen years ago waiting 30-40
seconds on the original Macs.
68K Mac machines take forever to boot because they test memory , and do it
slowly. The machines I have with 128MB of RAM or higher take quite a while
before they initialize video and start loading the OS (which is fast since I
use newer HD's and faster NUBUS scsi cards.