I know it is a personal choice, however, I feel a need to add my pennies worth.
Historically, the wintel architecture is actually not ideal for a UNIX machine, mainly to the great big gaping whole in the memory map, a throwback from the 640k limit from the DOS PC days. The main issue with that used to crop up regarding Macs and UNIX, is that you need a system that has an MMU and FPU. Also, if you look at all the past Sun and HP UNIX servers they all started on MC680x0 cpu's. As this is a Vintage Apple list, you must remember, that Apple had a SVR2 UNIX known as A/UX that ran on Mac II's and Quadra's. Sure, as a workstation, the Mac excels, and I am glad to say that I run a completely wintel free house hold. If I want to run a *NIX type OS, I'd much rather use one of my many Vintage Macintoshes for that, or buy a real UNIX server, like a Sun, IBM RS/6000, HP 9000 or SGI etc... :-) On Wednesday, October 05, 2005, at 07:16AM, John Niven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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. > >.. snip ... > >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 :-) > >snip .. > >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. > >.. snip -- http://homepage.mac.com/andresk/ -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
