really cheap LC II

[tomlee59]

It is amazing that the LCII is about as fast as an LC, according to most benchmarks, despite the LCII's '030 under the hood (bonnet). It takes a special engineering effort to pull off that trick.

[Quadraman]

It is amazing that the LCII is about as fast as an LC, according to most benchmarks, despite the LCII's '030 under the hood (bonnet). It takes a special engineering effort to pull off that trick.

That's what happens when the bus bottlenecks the processor. The 030 in the LCII runs faster than the 020 in the LC, but only internally. Once it has to access something on the bus it runs at either the same speed, or slower if the bus becomes saturated.

[Blessed Cheesemaker]

The LC and LCII also run the bus at half the bandwith that the CPU is capable of so whenever the CPU has to go off chip for anything, it is SSSSSLLLLLOOOOOWWWWW.

I guarentee it is not as SSSLLLLOOOOWWWW as a POS Intel 486 running Windows 95

Speed is relative...my G4 with the 1.4Ghz Sonnet upgrade even slows down at time. Of course, since I put in the SATA card, it has sped up a bit, as the built in 66Mhz ATA bus was the real bottleneck, in many cases (iTunes, copying large files, etc).

In any event, with System 6, and the few things I plan on doing with the LC, my 40-50wpm typing will probably be the biggest slow-er down-er of the system (that, and the slow drive...I plan on using it to finally image and convert to CD my old Apple IIGS disks).