It takes about 12 bounces to launch Internet Explorer 5.1 on Da Vinci, and 8 bounces to open System Preferences. It takes quite a few seconds to load control panels, unlike in OS 9 and also unlike on the next test subject, Epsilon. Once applications are running, they are as responsive as they are in OS 9. Epsilon Epsilon has a 400Mhz G3 processor on a 100Mhz system bus, and uses faster PC100 memory. We oohed and ahhed over the Genie Effect and others.
Window dragging especially is flawless.
Nothing more needs to be said here. Finder Browsing the hard drive with the Finder is very fast. Classic We haven't had the time to fully explore Classic on Epsilon, but for basic tasks it seems to perform as well as OS 9 did by itself on the machine. Classic takes about 90 seconds to start, and then works transparently until you tell it to stop. Classic applications launch in about the same time as they do in OS 9.