Re: Apple IIe card/PC Transporter card performance

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Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>I recall some of the more militant Apple II crowd's derision of the Apple IIe
>card as a way to migrate from II to Mac. Some disliked its lack of IIgs 
>native support and others the speed, even though the hardware runs at 2 MHz.
>I got one a few months back to go in my Color Classic and found the speed to
>be disappointing. I surmised that it was because the Color Classic is a dog
>speed wise compared to other Macs which can use the card. It has a 16 MHz
>'030 with crippled 16 bit bus and its memory tops out at 10 mb. So I got
>hold of an LC520 logic board. It has a 25 MHz '030 with 32 bit bus and can
>go up to 36 mb of memory, and is a direct swap for the CC logic board. I'd
>say that the swap nearly doubled the CC's speed. With the card running on 
>the 520 board, the II software I tried seems to run at nearly the same speed
>as on an unaccelerated IIgs. There are even faster Macs which can use the
>card, from 33 MHz '030s up to 25 and 33 MHz '040s. I imagine though that you
>hit a threshold where a faster box doesn't help the IIe card's speed. But
>regardless, those who have only seen the card running in a 16 MHz LC class
>box and complain about the speed haven't seen what the card can do. And with
>a usable amount of memory, acceptable speed, color, and //e compatibility,
>the Color Classic makes a neat little box.

FYI, I originally thought the IIe card was pretty neat.  It did, after all,
use the Mega II technology first seen in the IIGS for its IIe emulation.
I always thought it was more elegant than software based emulators.

I think the speedup you've seen is sort of like how PC Transporter
operations speed up a bit as you accelerate a IIGS.  Disk drive/hard
drive performance speeds up quite a bit, for example.

However, I'm getting a little fed up with this "militant Apple II user"
stuff.  ;-P  I mean, come on, if I'm a militant Apple II user, then you
are a militant Mac user, right?  Being advocates for a computer is
not the same as militancy.