Re: Linux on an LC? Possible?

2001-07-30 Thread Cameron Kaiser
In theory, you could get a minimal X-Windowing environment going, but it'll be tricky getting NetBSD to boot with the add-on PMMU and FPU, because there is no place onboad to add one. You could try to dig up the PDS accelerators that have those pieces on them, but *BSD and Linux (As well as

Re: Linux on an LC? Possible?

2001-07-30 Thread Cameron Kaiser
You can't install a PMMU, there is no socket for it. Thus any normal flavor of Unix will not work on an LC. There isn't? Not even on a PDS card? -- - personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * [EMAIL

Re: LC Cable Internet?

2001-07-30 Thread the pickle
At 17:16 -0400 on 30/07/01, Steve Moody wrote: Can an LCIII with a 10baseT Ethernet card be connected to the Internet with a cable modem? Yes. Any Mac with Ethernet can be. p _ the pickle The FAQ http://macfaq.binhost.com/ The Archive

Re: Outlook/Windows users on this list?

2001-07-30 Thread Amber Rhea
on 7/30/01 2:06 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then the issue of one system being just as good as the other... Comparing brand new pc's to 10 year old macs... Really people, Mac OS X is far superior to any other operating system out there, be it windows or linux. Most

Re: Linux on an LC? Possible?

2001-07-30 Thread Michael D Wellman
Ahem. I dunno about your local newspaper but folks here want $150 for a Pentium 100 box, which is insane. Here in the Southwest, the heat warps the mind, and most people give there Old Pentiums to Goodwill, Salvation Army, Savers, the Disabled Vets Store, etc. etc. etc. My last