On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:31:07PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > 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. >
Heh - from memory a mac68k system was not meant to be used for more than a few hours between reboots because the OS did not handle fragmentation in the heap well at all and applications would start failing because they could not allocate a large enough chunk of contiguous memory on the heap. > 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 ... > Yes. Must be something to do with having an orthoganal intruction set and a decent number of registers to work with (amongst other things). -- Brett Lymn
