shevett@mccc.UUCP (Dave Shevett) (01/11/89)
This seems like a silly question, and probably has been asked before, but is there anyway to kick up the existing 10mghz clock speed on the 3b1's? The whole discussion recently about HD upgrades has been fascinating (having just shucked out my life savings to get a 67meg Micropolis in the interest of performance :-).... The idea comes up in the wake of a programming project falling into my hands. I may have to have as many as 3 people compiling 'C' programs on this beast at the same time, and even WITH the fast drive, it'll be hell. Is there any performance mod I can make to get this thing out of the mips gutter its in? Quasi-related question: I've heard tell dBase III was once/still is available for said Unix PC. Is it still around? Is it III+? Does anyone have a version they might be willing to part with? Dave Shevett ...!princeton!mccc!labii!shevett
jcm@mtunb.ATT.COM (was-John McMillan) (01/11/89)
In article <567@mccc.UUCP> shevett@mccc.UUCP (Dave Shevett) writes: >This seems like a silly question, and probably has been asked before, but >is there anyway to kick up the existing 10mghz clock speed on the 3b1's? NO: the only trivial speed modification is a SLOW-DOWN, achieved by accelerating it to ~ the speed of light (-% -- if I remember relativity correctly ;^) >Is there any performance mod I can make to get this thing out of the mips >gutter its in? Sorry about your gutter-sniping! If you're masochistic enough to run 3 MAKE/COMPILES concurrently, get all the RAM ya can. Or work out a COMPILE-spooler! I'll mail ya DBASE-III info if I can get an answer. jc mcmillan -- att!mtunb!jcm -- staggering thru another daze work.