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From: thaddeus@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Thaddeus R. Crews)
Subject: 2.01 patch for EGC and System 6.X (HELP!)
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 22:14:29 GMT
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I was reading in the MCL FAQ and read where the patch from 2.0
to 2.01 may improve EGC performance depending on your exact usage
of MCL and your Mac.  It further reads:

"You should consider using the ptable init if all of the following
 are true:
   * Your Mac's CPU is an 040, 030, or 020 (with a PMMU installed)
   * You are not running with System 7's virtual memory turned on
   * You prefer to run MCL with EGC enabled."

Here is my situation.  We are trying to run an experiment and would
like to use a lab full of IIci's with 4 RAM (yes, that was me who
posted this question earlier.  Thanks to all who replied).  I have
since found out, however, that the lab has IIci's rather than LC IIIs.
Thus (I believe) I can boot with a minimal System 6.X which should
require less space than the minimal System 7 boot required by an
LC III.  I also would like to run EGC, which leads to my point.
Should I get the ptable patch???  Specifically, is my situation
consistent with the "not running System 7's virtual memory" 
recommendation?  (yeah, yeah, I *know* I'm not running System 7's
vm; I'm wondering if the FAQ *assumed* everyone would use System 7,
and that only an idiot would use 2.01 with an older OS.)

More plainly, can anyone confirm or deny the benefits of the 2.01
ptable patch on a System 6.X minimal boot when EGC is on?

Tera-thanks!!!

-- 
-- Thad Crews <thaddeus@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
"Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a
system of government.  Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the
masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." -- Dennis, filth collector.
