Re: [WinMac] OrangePC Blues....
Brian Durant(pip207[at]inform.dk)
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 19:05:02 +0200
Hi guys,
Sorry to butt in on your thread like this, but I picked up on your e-mails
because I have
just ordered an OrangeMicro 660 PC card with an AMD 350 Mhz. processor and
max RAM (150 MB??) Will I experience the same problems as you describe???
Brian
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>From: Romeyn Prescott <prescor@potsdam.edu>
>To: "The Windows-MacOS cooperation list" <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: [WinMac] OrangePC Blues....
>Date: lr 28. nov 1998 0:09
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>>12) Would disk access speed be improved if I were to add a seperate SCSI
>>drive just for use by OrangePC? Say for example I were to add a 4Gb disk
>>with a couple of PC disk images? I ask this because I'm using the
>>OrangePC for software development (though not testing) If I start a
>>compile on Windows and then move to the Mac to work there, I find that
>>occasionally the Mac freezes for a view seconds and I can't type. This is
>>only an inconvenience no data is lost and it catches up again. I assume
>>it's the OrangePC application hogging the processor a little, but I
>>wonder what it was doing that needed it.
>>
>>
>
>This was a BIG peeve of mine and I didn't really notice it until I slapped
>a second display on the Orange card so I could see what was going on. I
>had an OrangePC card with it's OWN SCSI drive. Anytime you switch back to
>the Mac the PC will CRAWL! Like a SNAIL. This was easy to see with two
>monitors. I'd start, say, a large file transfer and it would clip right
>along. Then I'd switch to the Mac and change to another application and it
>was like I threw up a brick wall; the file transfer would morph into
>molasses. As soon as I switched back to the OrangePC app, it sped up again.
>
>I want to go on the record as saying that this sucks. Tech support told me
>there was nothing I could do (I also suggested a second SCSI card) but they
>said it would not make a difference.
>
>:-(
>
>...ROMeyn
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