[comp.sys.xerox] Slow 1186s

msriram@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (M.G. SriRam) (09/02/88)

In our lab we have 6 of the xerox 1186 workstations.  These have the 
maximum possible amont of RAM: 3.5 Mbytes.  However, the experience of
most people has been that they run significantly slower than the old
1108s under the same version of the environment (KOTO).  Have others 
also had the same experience?  If so, is there something we can do to
speed up our machines?

thanks very much!

Ingalls.wbst@XEROX.COM (09/07/88)

I recall a user here having the same problem.  They had the extended memory
board installed but the EEPROM set up was set to only use the original 1.1mb of
memory.  As I recall there's a utility outside of Lisp that allowed us to
configure the machine so it used the extended memory board.  Perhaps someone
forgot to do this.

   - David