gp@lll-lcc.aRpA (George Pavel) (05/29/87)
I recently had a Mac SE to play with and compared it with my Mac+. I have a Dataframe XP40 that I connected to the SE with no problems. (By the way, Autoblack worked fine, although the first time I used it on the SE, it did leave an extra clock stuck on the screen.) I decided to do disk timings using Disk Timer II which comes with the Dataframe to compare the SE to the Plus, and to compare the two System/Finders that I had available. The test was performed by plugging the same XP40 into each of the Macs to make the environment identical. The disk was running with Initializer 2.5. The numbers shown below are the figures that came from Disk Timer II. Macintosh Plus with Dataframe XP40, System 3.2, Finder 5.3 Read Write Access Trial 1: 52 55 16 Trial 2: 52 55 16 Macintosh Plus with Dataframe XP40, System 4.0, Finder 5.4 Read Write Access Trial 1: 55 67 17 Trial 2: 55 60 19 Macintosh SE with Dataframe XP40, System 3.2, Finder 5.3 Read Write Access Trial 1: 76 52 16 Trial 2: 77 52 16 Macintosh SE with Dataframe XP40, System 4.0, Finder 5.4 Read Write Access Trial 1: 86 87 16 Trial 2: 85 88 19 It would seem that the SE SCSI interface is slower than the Mac+, and that the newer System also has a slower driver than System 3.2. I only had the SE for a short time, but with these results, I was more than willing to give it up. I decided to keep the newer System, though, since it wasn't significantly worse on the Plus. Has anyone else had these results? George Pavel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808 L-68 Livermore, CA 94550 Internet: gp@lll-lcc.arpa (415)422-4262 UUCP: ihnp4!lll-lcc!gp