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- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.050756.169093@bmug.org>
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- From: Dennis_R._Dimick@bmug.org
- Organization: BMUG, Inc.
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 05:07:56 PST
- Subject: Sys.7.1 &Radius Math
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- RE: System 7.1 and IIci Math Performance
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- I've discovered a way to get math speed back into Mac IIci's and other 68882
- equipped machines with 68030 processors when running System 7.1. As has been
- published in the Mac press, Apple dropped a Math SANE "hack" in System 7.1
- that was in 7.01. This "hack" had speeded up math, and some graphics
- performance on the IIci and others when running 7.01.
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- Radius Math 1.5, an extension available on-line (at least on AOL) from Radius,
- seems to improve math performance by at least 50 percent on a IIci running
- 7.1. Speedometer 3.1 tests showed math performance numbers improving from 12
- to more than 18, with graphics performance improving, but less so. I have
- tested this on three IIci's: One with a Radius 8.24 xp card (and 16-inch Apple
- RGB), the second with Apple's latest 8.24 GC card in accelerated mode (into
- another Apple 16-inch RGB), and the third IIci was using on-board video (into
- a 13-inch Apple RGB.)
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- No conflicts were discovered, all three machines are running with the same
- init sets as before (more than 20 in once case), and I have found no problems
- at all: no crashes, freezes or other anomalies. I did find that machine
- performance improved to a greater degree when Radius Math loaded early in the
- startup sequence.
-
- Dennis Dimick
- Arlington, VA
- ddimick@aol.com
- Plant BMUG: Dennis R. Dimick
- ddimick@well.sf.ca.us
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