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- From: UK0392@AppleLink.Apple.COM (EHN & DIJ Oakley,GB,IDV)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re3: speed freak buys farm?
- Message-ID: <726178826.8630596@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:52:00 GMT
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- But a few days ago (last year, I think), I said:
- > Funnily enough, I expect to test my first Rocket early in the New Year.
- To which came the reply:
- >Good luck with this one. I have a Rocket and am very dissapointed to find
- >that MCL is about the only application that I cannot run on it using the new
- >RocketShare environment to which you reference.
- and Alice Hartley <alice@cambridge.apple.com> said:
- >Or from a different perspective, the Radius accelerators are the only
- >ones that MCL has problems with. The 25i causes more problems than
- >the 33i.
-
- Well, today the Rocket 33 arrived, was duly installed, and tested under MCL
- (amongst other things). My preliminary impression is that *without* using
- RocketShare, there are no compatibility problems between MCL 2.0p2 (pre-release
- patch 2) and the currently shipping Rocket 33. However, I was meticulous to:
- 1. Remove ptable from the System Folder (which is not needed for 040s
- anyway??)
- 2. Remove other INITs and CDEVs of dubious parentage
- 3. Use 80ns & 70 ns RAM, totalling 20 Mbyte.
-
- And the end result? Arguably as fast as a Quadra 700, but with the added
- potential of (maybe one day) running RocketShare too, and a rather cheaper and
- more versatile upgrade than the IIci->Q700 one. I still have reservations
- about the future, though, and it will be interesting to see if RocketShare gets
- fixed with respect to MCL. Fortunately in this case, it was not my money that
- I was committing.
-
- Howard.
-
-