Try installing 8.6, 8.1 is mostly 68k code (so your 2300 is running in
emulation mode) whereas 8.6 is PPC native.
Ben.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duo/2400 List
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Gerard Tripptree
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 1:09 PM
> To: Duo/2400 List
> Subject: [Duo2400] OS 8.1 and 2300
>
>
> After successfully upgrading my 280c to a 2300c, I
> re-installed OS 8.1 - "
> ... for this Macintosh only ..." which should have given me
> a PPC OS
> install. Well, strangely enough, it seems to me that the
> 2300 actually runs
> SLOWER than the 280c was running with the 68040 and OS 8.1.
> I did install
> PowerPC versions of the application software I was using on
> the 280c.
>
> I have 36MB of real RAM on board as well as RAM Doubler 8.x
> to bump the
> effective RAM up to 72MB. 128KB of disk cache and no virtual memory.
>
> Why would the PowerPC seem slower than the 68040? What can
> be done to see
> an appreciable (noticeable) boost in speed?
>
> Thanks again.
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