soeryant@frith.msu.edu (05/29/91)
Please forgive my ignorance. I am using a Mac SE/30 and running MacOS System 6.0.3. I'm thinking of upgrading to Sys7. Question: Besides the obvious like TrueType Fonts (versus my ATM 2.0) what other benefits do I get? I am thinking primarily of MultiTasking. Is there an appreaciable increase in performance as compared to MultiFinder 6.0.3? Thanks for your kind answers. If necessary I'll summarize and post it here for other poor souls like me. Herr Soeryantono soeryantono@frith.egr.msu.edu
gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) (05/30/91)
This morning I did some testing of system 7.0 and system 6.0.7. Here are the results: Mac II CMS PRO-80 (quantum Q280 disk drive), no PMMU, AppleColor RGB monitor & card, no INITs, no CDEVs, no Apple Menu Items, black/white mode, no startup screen. System Boot time. -------------------------- 7.0 20 seconds 6.0.7 5.5 seconds Given that you can run a "TrueType" init in system 6.0.7, I am considering going back to the earlier system. If I ever want to test buggy software the 20-second turnaround time will be long indeed. --
edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (05/30/91)
>System Boot time. >-------------------------- >7.0 20 seconds >6.0.7 5.5 seconds Do you have "Appleshare" or other Appletalk extension? And are you not connected to a network? If so, there is a long delay on startup while the computer waits for the network to respond. You can get the same effect with 6.0.7 using the Responder INIT. -- Gerald A. Edgar Internet: edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu Department of Mathematics Bitnet: EDGAR@OHSTPY The Ohio State University telephone: 614-292-0395 (Office) Columbus, OH 43210 -292-4975 (Math. Dept.) -292-1479 (Dept. Fax)