[SunRescue] G3 upgrade for PowerMac 7300

rescue at sunhelp.org rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 16 13:46:45 CDT 2001


I don't think 160MB and 300Mhz are going to cut it.  And thanks for the
note on gcc...I found it moments before. 

I'm wondering if a faster G3 will make a difference, or if too much of the
GUI is dependent upon AltiVec acceleration...

> On Monday, April 16, 2001, at 05:34  pm, <ed at the7thbeer.com> wrote:
> 
> > I did the devtools, but not 10.0.1, yet.  It's still slow as a dog and
> > there are some spiffy graphics bugs too.  Between that and the inability
> > to actually *find* gcc on the box, it's frustrating.  heh
> 
> /usr/bin/cc is ggc 2.95.2. Try running cc --help.
> 
> Performance is fine on my PB G3 500 (except for window resizing which is 
> awful). I do have 256MB of memory though :-)
> 
> Mick Sheppard
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