Lampson/Thacker to do Dynabook?

Bruce ONeel beoneel at mindspring.com
Fri Sep 10 12:29:58 UTC 1999


Bob Arning <arning at charm.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:16:14 EDT JArchibald at aol.com wrote:
> >Similarly, on a Pentium 133 Thinkpad, I find Morphic too slow to reasonably 
> >experiment with.
> 
> Isn't that interesting: on a 120 MHz PowerMac, I quite happily stayed in Morphic unless it was absolutely necessary to revert to MVC.

This is very interesting...  My Powerbook 500 which has a 100mhz PPC is quite nice in
morphic.  No cache either.   Squeak must do something which is painful on a Pentium
and not so painful on a PPC.   There has been some chatter about this over time.

cheers

bruce





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