don't forget the venerable 601, the IBM PPC CPU...
Found in the Power 80,100,120,PowerCurve, Radius 100,110, Mac
6100,7100,8100,9150
Robert wrote:
>Pre -G3~post-040, hmmm. That would be a 603, 604, 604e, right?
>
>I have a PCP 210 with the orig. 604e chip. It was used with 8.6 for a
>year with no problems. It is now running OS9.1 with no problems ... yet.
>I talked with an engineer at "Black & Bleu" and he stated, "They had
>found 7.6 and 8.5 or 8.6 to be very stable. They found 9.0 to be more
>crash prone than any OS since 6.0. I finally got OS 9.1 stable after
>upgrading all my other S/W. RHB
>
>"Michael S. Macdonald" wrote:
>
>> OS 8.1 was more like OS 7.1.
>> 7.5.3 was, in fact, a pretty stable OS
>
>> OS8 was the first of the PPC 'native' system efforts, and ended the reign
>> of the 030 Macs
>
> I find OS8.6 to be as stable an OS as I've ever run (from OS 3.2 up) and
>> has neato noises and desktop pictures to boot...8>)
>
>> My advice is to spring for OS 8.5/6 if you're using a pre-G3~post-040 mac.
>
>> Cheers...Michael
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