On Oct 4, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Samual Acorn wrote:
if you like wannabe you'd love 'links' ;)
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/ (browser homepage..
has screenshots..)
http://mac.linux-m68k.org/ (the os you would need to run it)
I think the the greatest thing an old Apple CPU has to offer is it's
ability to run the Mac OS, and, of course, all the great old
applications and games that you can get for cheap or free.
I'm sure there are great technical arguments to be had on the relative
merits of the different OS, but the hard fact is that the most
development work for the *nix OS's is on the X86 platform.
I remember reading on the web some geeks diatribe about what he saw as
the hardware weaknesses of the Mac he was trying to port *nix to. It
was ugly.
Seems to me that by changing an Apple into a linux box you have to
accept less well developed code AND loose the user-friendly Mac OS and
applications. Why not just get an old x86 platform instead? Plenty of
those about!
I have a load of old Macs, but for my netBSD plaything/learning tool I
use a dual 200MHz Pentium Pro box. I got it virtually free and built it
up with salvaged bits. It's a very nice bit of hardware. I also use it
to format SCSI drives destined for Macs :-)
I'd rather commend the guy who wrote Wannabe, and if its not as good as
Links, encourage someone to do the development work so it is.
I'd like someone to spend time improving (simplifying) the classic OS
so that it runs better on older machines. I don't believe that throwing
it out and replacing it with a "ported" version of serious server
software is the right thing to do. That's not what Apple was ever
about.
I think it's great that Apple have moved on to OSX - I use it daily and
am pleased that I can be a Mac user at work without having to jump
through hoops. But I like to use my Classic Macs when I can. For
example I'm currently digitizing selections of my LP collection with a
Quadra 950 and AudioMedia II sound card. Works very effectively :-)
Cheers,
John
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