Brett Lymn wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 06:31:58PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: >> >> A little googling showed the specs. 33MHz, maximum of 64MHz. Probably >> in the neighborhood of a Mac 68040-based machine. Probably a bit faster >> than my SS2, which won't impress anyone. > > Actually, the ELC is not faster than the SS2, the ELC processor does > not have as many context registers as a SS2 (maybe some other > differences) so the SS2 will generally "feel" faster. The ELC is a > monochrome only all in one box you are very very lucky if:
The "feel" part is in reference to the mac68k systems. The mac68k machines are NOT multi-user systems by design, they really feel sluggish beyond the limitations of their processor. 68040 is a pretty good chip (for its day), but an 80386/25 will "feel" more responsive...when you hit a key on the keyboard, something will "happen", on the mac68ks, you sometimes wonder. On the other hand, there is no question that the 80386 is a much slower processor than the 68040 -- do anything involving crypto, you will know that, no question. Or compression. Or ... Nick.
