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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!lokkur!scs
- From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: SLOW IPC!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.004649.8293@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Organization: Inland Sea
- References: <1992Aug22.160243.16375@unixland.natick.ma.us>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 00:46:49 GMT
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- bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
-
- >We just set up an IPC in an office that used to have a 3/60. The 3/60
- >had 16mb of memory and was used for OW 2.0 and Sunview. The IPC actually
- >feels much slower than the 3/60!!!! The IPC only has 8mb of memory and
- >is a color display instead of mono like the 3/60. The IPC is used for
- >sunview and OW 3.0, and runs sunos 4.1.2 instead of 4.1.1_U1.
-
- Moving simultaneously from mono to color, sunview to OW, 16MB to 8MB,
- and mc68030 (small core images) to sparc (gigantic core images), the
- IPC *is* slower than the 3/60. More memory will help a lot (I consider
- 24MB the abosolute minimum for OW) but the biggest win will be to dump
- OW.
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