[comp.sys.mac.misc] Virtual for IIfx

alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) (08/31/90)

weesh@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Darweesh) writes:

>I'm not sure what's wrong with the virtual and the sawing noise etc, but...
>I have the newest Virtual for Mac II (2.03) and System 6.0.5 and I have

The sawing noise may be page thrashing.  A customer's SE/30 started life
with one meg and Virtual set to eight; the performance was somewhat
pits-like.  When it was upped to 2 megs real, load performance went 'way
up!  (And I never expected to see page thrashing on a micro!)

Apropos of that, what's the latest Virtual for the IIfx?  The 2.0.3
betas I got from Connectix don't work on my father's IIfx with the
pretty standard inits.  I've also tried turning all of them off with
Aask, but the system crashes during startup!

Is this one of those "you need more spaces in front of the name"
problems, or should I merely perseve?  

I know there was some thought that perhaps Apple had created a silent
revision of the ROMSIMMs for the IIfx, and that some machines were
thought allergic to Virtual therefore.  But perhaps that has been ironed
out?

Yes, I'll call Connectix, Real
Soon Now :-), but I thought the Net might have some insights....

	Alex
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