[DuoList] Installing OS 9.2 on pb 2400

[Greg Glazier]

On Nov 26, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Sid Barras wrote:

> I bought one recently that had OS 9.2 already installed, and it seems 
> to run fine; in fact maybe even a bit zippier than OS 9.1. And am I 
> mistaken in thinking that 9.2 might have better native support for USB 
> type devices? (The machine is cardbus enabled, and I do use USB 
> printers and stuff. But I would like it to run just a bit faster, and 
> I've already got the 96mb RAM chip installed.
>
> I believe that one needs a utility program to help enable the 9.2 OS 
> to be installed, but I am unable to find anything that looks like that 
> on this machine that has the 9.2 installed, so I assume it runs in the 
> background or goes away once the software is installed.
>
> Would it be a worthwhile installation, or is it going to consume 
> unecessary precious RAM? (I do have RAM doubler installed too...)
>
> Thanks for any info.
>

9.2 won't run anything any faster than 9.1 on a 2400C. The only 
difference is that 9.2 improved performance in the Classic environment 
of Mac OS X. If you're not running OS X, (or even if you *are*) don't 
worry about it.

Life's too short. :-)

--
Greg Glazier
The 2400C Doc

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