Made for some very fun years though
It was the first time that I recall that as you got a newer version of
the OS the machine got faster despite the added functionality
On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 11:54 PM, Sushi wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/02 @ 3:28 PM, Martin Joseph wrote:
>>
>> I have repeatedly been stuck by how much snappier
>> the last '040 mac's were when compared with there
>> replacements....
>
> Remember, this wasn't all due to hardware issues.
>
> The System was not ported completely to the PPC until much later.
> Initially, only certain parts of the system ported. The remainder of
> the
> system ran in an emulation mode which slowed these portions of the
> system, and thus the whole system, down considerably.
>
> Sushi
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