SM 4000MT w/Newer G3 300 upgrade/160 MB RAM
This is an unscientific test but it is an actual experience. I have been
running the SETI program screensaver for a while, I have over 100 cycles on
my SM. I wanted to camper speed with my wife's Powerbook G4Ti so I
downloaded the program and ran it on her machine for a couple cycles. My SM
with OS 7.6.1 ran a cycle at about 24 to 26 hours. The PBG4Ti did it in the
22 to 24 hour range, generally only about a 10% speed increase over the SM!
Doesn't make the G4 seem so fast. Makes me want to keep running my SM
forever.
Then I upgraded my SM OS from 7.6.1 to OS 9.1 and boy are the cycles slower.
It now takes at least 30 hours (one was 37 hours) to run a cycle. Since it
is the same SETI software I have to assume it is OS 9,1 slowing things down.
But I thought things were supposed to be faster under later OSs since there
was less 68k code left.
Now in day to day use on Appleworks, Word, Netscape and Quicken I do not
notice a useable speed loss (although there is definitely no speed gain).
Windows definitely open faster under 7.6.1 but not necessarily operations
within the programs.
Anyway, I wonder why everyone is in such a hurry to upgrade OSs when it
looks to me like the older OSs are faster and certainly 7.6.1 was as stable
as any Mac OS I am aware of. The main reason I will continue to run OS 9.1
is for my wife's personal compatibility between computers, that kind of over
rides other considerations.
"A man with one watch knows what time it is,
a man with two watches is never sure..." - Albert Einstein
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