Evan Corbett schrieb:
> > Every once in a while when I power up the ol' Newt, it reacts incredibly slowly to taps and other
> > commands, then seems to clear after several minutes.
> ...
> > Sound familiar to anyone?
> Yep. I think it is caused from restoring of old backups. It seems that
> the order of the restoring of the data is the reason therefore, but I'm
> not shure. Someone wrote that the backup and restore process would do
> some sort of defragmentation of the Newton memory but to me it seems
> just the inverse. I did so far the worst what could be done to slow down
> my MP2k1: I restored always at least a few packages from elder backups
> after brain wipe and did never a real clean re-installation of all
> programs. Another reason of slow down might be the '61 bug fix from CLi.
>
> Once I got delays from the '61 (V0.4 or 0.5) of about 30sec just after
> restore. Then I erased e.g. the names and dates soups and restored them
> again and I could speed-up my MP2k1 a little. Comparing with my spare
> UMP2k1 my german MP2k1 is still apparently slower. (For all which think:
> 'Why doesn't he use the faster UMP?' It does not recognize cursive
> Umlaute :-( and I'm forced to use the slower printed writing.)
--Regards / Viele Gruesse
Marco Mailand
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