Re: DOS Speed on PowerMac
Lee Zeltzer (lzeltzer@isdnet.com)
Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:31:13 EST
Sandi Huberty <shuberty@Informns.k12.mn.us> wrote:
> Hi all, In the Princeton School district our curriculum director would
> like to use the DOS side of the Power Macinosh 6l00/66 to run the program
> Student Data Management System, which compiles statistics for the Iowa Test
> of Basic Skills. I installed it on his machine and on an IBM in another
> office. It runs MUCH SLOWER on his power mac. He said he heard of a way
> to speed the processing up on the DOS side of his machine. Does anyone out
> there know if this is possible and if so, how?
Are you using shared RAM or dedicated ram for each processor? This is your
only real option if available on this model; hardware board for emulation vs
software emulation.
Apple oversold the expectations of their dual platform software emulation,
it's not very fast.
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