Re: Anybody use System 7

In article <6722C2E4.C3DBCF5A@gmail.com>, David Heaton
<twertlesonline@gmail.com> wrote:

is there a
massive difference in speed between running 8.1 on a G3 and running
7.6.1 on a G3-upgraded mac? i would think that 8.1 would be faster due
to more PowerPC code maybe im wrong?

I dunno about the PPC code question, although it does sound like there's a
logic to what you say. What I can relate is the experience I'm having
running 7.6.1 on my Power Macintosh 9600; it absolutely bloody flies! I
have just rebuilt that machine and it has a Sonnet G4 CPU card and 512MB
RAM, so is phenomenally more powerful than the machines 7.6.1 was intended
to run on.

Partition your drive and install both systems, do a side-by-side
comparison. You'll probably not notice much difference, in truth. But if
there is any difference to notice, I'd bet it'd be that OS7 feels
significantly more nimble than 8.