> Peter, that's good info. I never understood exactly why the old PPC macs > had such a problem with web browsing.
Web browsers are actually quite CPU-intensive. If you had tried to run a web browser on a "high end" graphics workstation when I first started getting into computers... hell, anything that had graphics was "high end" back then... you'd be waiting minutes for it to display a page with multiple font sizes and images, but don't even think of trying to run scripts or plugins. A top-of-the-line workstation from the '80s would be ten to a hundred time faster, and would only be agonizingly slow... taking seconds to scroll down a page. The Powermac 7100 is a powerhouse compared to something like the old NeXT Cube or the slabs... my NeXTstation is about equivalent in general specifications to a Performa 475 and the original cube was noticably slower... but the OS really gets in the way on the poor old 7100. My first "modern" Mac was a 7200/120 and I was absolutely horrified at what OS 9 was putting the beggar through. It should have been kicking my NeXT's butt, and here it was taking seconds to refresh the display after I clicked on a different app's window. That operation was pretty much instant on the NeXT. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
