Re: DOS Speed on PowerMac
Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:08:41 EST
At 11:03 PM 3/27/96, Sandi Huberty 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? THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT, Sandi
>Huberty, District Technology Coordinator
Putting an 8M or 16M SIMM directly on the 486 card instead of sharing Mac
memory makes an enormous difference in performance.
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Bruce Carter, Instructional Software Designer (208)385-1851@voice
Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725 (208)385-1856@fax
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