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- From: collin@angelo.amd.com (Collin K. Ong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: TimesTwo initial impression
- Message-ID: <collin.721964933@angelo>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:48:53 GMT
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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- I just got TimesTwo v1.0 in the mail this weekend and spent a few hours
- installing it last night. This is on a Powerbook 100's internal 40M
- drive. The installation is easy, but be warned, the installer writes to
- the original disk after the install is through. IE, the personalization
- info is written to the original disk.
-
- The 40M drive had 38M on it when I ran the installer. Now the finder
- says that there is 59M on disk and 20.xM free. I'm not sure why the
- amount on disk is higher than before, but I suspect that the fact that
- I had a lot of things DiskDoubler'ed and about 10M worth of Compactor
- archives is the culprit. Perhaps they got bigger when x2 tried to
- compress them again? I tried out decompressing some DD files (DD init
- stopped working for some reason but DD App kicked in) but the space
- free went down as it would normally.
-
- Speed. There is definitely a noticable slowdown in all disk accesses.
- This is not unbearably slow, however. Things just aren't as snappy.
- I'd say that it makes disk accesses look sorta like Mac Plus speeds.
- Hopefully, it'll be faster on my SE/030, since I have noticed that
- compression is one of the things that the 68000 in the PB100 is really
- slow at (judging from Compact Pro and DD). Unfortunately, the drive
- needs to be backed up and reformatted if you want to remove x2, so
- take any benchmarks BEFORE you install!
-
- More later as I get more experience with TimesTwo.
-
- Collin Ong
- (opinions are mine, not AMD's. no affiliation with Golden Triangle)
-