Hi Howard,
Yes, that's correct, you need at least 128 MB of RAM for OS X alone.
Once that much is consumed, that leaves little to no room for running
applications. Also, although it's only a memory, I seem to recall OS
X needs at least a G3 to run, and it has to be a native machine, not
one that's been upgraded with a processor card.
Sorry for the bad news.
On the other hand, OS 9 is really pretty good, and you should get
decent speed and other performance results considering the setup of
your machine.
All the best, ... from one who believes OS X is over-rated ... ;-)
Cheers,
Bill
At 7:09 PM -0500 20/08/2005, hnk wrote:
Thanks.
Are you saying I won't be able to run X because of the 160 MB RAM max.?
I didn't think of that-- Although I think I ran X on my Sawtooth
with less than 200 of RAM (can't remember now . . .)
More answers :-)
Howard
Bill Taylor's wrote:
Hi Howard,
I've a Starmax 300/160 with 92 MB of RAM [I think?] and a a 3 GB
drive, along with another 2 GB external SCSI drive. The system's
running OS 9.1. I don't have any problems with it in this
configuration, although I do access it as a headless Mac through my
network using Timbuktu. This S/W is much like Apple's Remote
desktop, but has been around much longer. As such, I don't need a
monitor as I can pull up on the screen of Timbuktu what would
otherwise be seen on a monitor.
The problem with this machine is that it relies on some very
specific RAM that is now hard to get. So, because of this, and the
fact that it's pretty slow, I don't bother with OS X. I prefer the
interface of OS 9 over that of X, that I've seen, so I'm pretty
happy with it. Essentially, this machine functions as an external
hard drive that I access through my network.
HTP.
Bill
At 6:07 PM -0500 20/08/2005, hnk wrote:
"New" to list here . . .
my Starmax is gathering dust, replaced by a Cube as my music server.
My neighbor across the alley needs a computer and internet to span
the "digital divide".
I'm starting to get rusty on everything pre-OSX, since I've been
using a G4 and an iBook in various incarnations of Jaguar and
Panther for a good while now.
The computer is I think originally a Starmax 180, but has a 320 G3
card (made by that german company that got in trouble for stealing
code-- forget the name). It has 160 MB of RAM, an 1/0 magic
CD-ROM that seemed like it never worked quite right in there, a 4x
SCSI CD burner that also seemed like it never worked right in
there, a 100 GB 5400 RPM Maxtor hard drive that's probably about
5x bigger than this neighbor needs . . . a 56k modem that some
nice person just mailed me for free to use in this project-- a
Supra express.
I can figure out how to swap in a smaller hard drive and such, but
my main questions have to do wioth OSX and OS9.
What sorts of dead-ends might I run into with OS9.x?
What sorts of problems are people having running X on this thing?
Is there a driver written for this G3 card? I was successful
getting Panther up and running on a beige G3 not too long ago
using X-Post facto . . . would it be significantly harder to
accomplish the same on a Starmax?
I'm not sure but I suspect the kids are probably using macs w/ OSX
in school . . .
Anyways, I'm sure I have more questions but it'll be good to see
if anyone's out there . . .
Yours,
Howard
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