On May 18, 2004, at 05:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If only some other smallish 68k Mac had a 128MB RAM ceiling, I'd definitely be using it.
All I have to say is "LC475/Q605" :) - one of those with a NIC and a full 040 makes a perfect NetBSD Box. Only thing to watch is the PSU won't always power faster SCSI drives as the power draw is too high.
The thread's lost to me but if you're using the right adapter
and it has the FPU removed, then you should not have the problems you're
having, and should not need any circulation of air.
It does have the FPU, which is one of the big perks for using it at all. The SE/30 is my web server, running NetBSD. And until recently, NetBSD required an FPU because the software emulation wasn't very good.
Thanks to an Amiga 1200 in a rackmount it's now no longer a crippling disease :)
If that's what I had, I'd give it a try. Though I've heard that NetBSD had some issues with 040 accelerators in 030 machines. Maybe that's been resolved.
I'd like to know if it has as I kinda fancied running it on my IIci, which has a Turbo040/40.
Two bottlenecks occur in the case of acceleration. The hard drive and the
RAM. Maybe go at it from these angles, first?
I thought about that possibility, but think it unlikely. The drive is a 7200 rpm 9GB. The RAM is all 4MB and 16MB SIMMs, which probably means it is 80ns or better. I think it was just the 256kB-2MB SIMMs that came in the slower 100ns and 120ns speeds.
At that sort of speeds I'd only settle for 70ns to be on the safe side, but I can't really see 80ns being that bigger problem (just contradicted my previous post - DOH!!).
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