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- From: mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chris Hurley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: How does 2.04 perform on A500???????????????????
- Message-ID: <y8NywB4w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 10:15:09 EST
- References: <1993Jan5.180545.12664@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Reply-To: mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chris Hurley)
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- charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
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- > I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman) writes:
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- > >From what I've seen, WB2.04 performs a little slowly on your bog standard Am
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- > Not really, unless you run a lot of commodities. (The commodities system see
- > to slow down 68000 machines - didn't see that happening on a 3000 or a 1200).
- The problem is not the 68000, the problem is the lack of Fast Memory. My
- 2.04 A500 with 2 megs of memory ran very snappily, even with commodities.
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- > >If you want to use it seriously, I think a processor accelerator is a good i
- >
- > A hard drive is the first priority, of course. *Then* the accelerator.
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- Absolutely. Hard Drive First. Then More Memory, followed by
- Accelerator.
- >
- > >If WB3.0 becomes available, you'll DEFINITELY need a faster machine.
- >
- > You'll need an AGA machine, I beleive!
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- I don't think it needs AGA.
- >
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