home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Path: ritz.mordor.com!news
- From: benjamin@ritz.mordor.com (Joseph Thomas)
- Subject: Possible reasons for slowness of Netscape with SS?
- X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1
- X-Nntp-Posting-User: benjamin
- Sender: benjamin@ritz.mordor.com
- Organization: Prudential Securitites, Inc.
- Message-ID: <5rravi5btb.fsf@ritz.mordor.com>
- X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ritz.mordor.com
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:46:56 GMT
-
- My setup: A1200, 1230XA (50mhz 68030) + 16 megs fast, No SS keyfile
- yet (currently using the AddBuffers trick)
-
- MacPPP starts up fine with a 28.8 connection (MacTCP serial port
- setting is at 28.8; I tried 57.6 at someone's suggestion, but my
- connect script stopped working).
-
- When I start up Netscape, it takes about 50 seconds to fully get the
- Netscape homepage (which, with on the same machine, mlink/Amosaic gets
- it in about 10).
-
- I would have thought that this would be the one exception to the
- slowness problem due to an emulated OS; that my modem, with its 28.8
- connection, would transfer information mostly independent of my
- A1200.
-
- By mostly, I mean that the actual downloading part would happen as
- fast as my modem could handle it, but it still needs to send the data
- through my serial port, which needs to be read using cycles of my
- A1200's CPU. Of course, this is just my speculation; I don't know if
- this is actually how it works (that's why I'm posting this ;) )
-
- I'm running with the 512K Mac ROM, with a color desktop (the monitor
- preferences say 256 colors, but it only seems like 16 to me). Same
- results if I run with greyscale, though.
-
- Can anyone say if there is a reason for this slowness, or is it just
- that my system is just not powerful enough to run Netscape at a
- reasonable speed?
-
- Also, does anyone know how to get rid of that annoying "AppleTalk
- device driver not found" message that comes up whenever you start SS?
-
- TIA
- -Joe
-