[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Mac Classic speed problems

zinder2500@engin.umich.edu (Michael Robert Attan) (04/17/91)

I seem to be having a small problem with speed on my Mac Classic.
For some reason, my mac runs applications noticably slower than
either Mac SE's or Mac+'s.  I am currently running system 6.0.7 with
2.5 Megs of RAM.  The extra .5 meg is from an old SE (128 ns chips,
I think)  I checked the speed of various applications (Word, Excell, and a
couple of games) while running no inits, and my classic crawls in comparison.
The only causes of this problem that I could think of are either the old
simms, or an error in system 6.0.7 (I know there are errors with the memory
manager for the si, lc and ci)  Has anyone had any similar speed problems
with a classic?  I'd rather not take the memory out to see if this is the
problem.  Is there a way to "shut off" memory?  Are there any benchmark
programs out there that I can use to get a definative speed check?
 
Any help/comments/ideas would be very welcomed.
Thanks in advance,
Michael Attan
 
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