Depends on what you're doing with it. For general OS, word processing, internetting, etc... not a whole lot. Most of that doesn't hit the FPU at all.
If you're looking to do some gaming with the fancier later games, or Photoshop, or some other specific things, it would have a pretty huge impact. Scott J. Alexander Jacocks wrote: > On a connected topic, how much of a difference in performance would it > make, to replace the 25mHz 68LC040 in a Quadra 605 with a full '040? > > Thanks! > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Derek Morton wrote: >> >>> Since the (real) Mac OS and all Mac OS applications run in the same >>> (supervisor) memory space, it doesn't seem like there would be any >>> need for the MMU except for VM... That said, the lack of an MMU >>> would prevent the running any Unix OS as they all (to my knowledge) >>> require it. >>> >>> Derek >>> >> The only UNIXy thing that works would be MacMinix, since it runs as an >> application in Mac OS rather than a standalone OS. It's pretty limited >> though, really only good for playing with something remotely UNIX-like >> and learning the basics of command line rather than getting anything >> real done. >> >> Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
