On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 11:26 PM, Seth M. wrote:
> Yet, not one of those machines WOULD ever replace my C600 which has > secured it's position on top of my desk, showcased for all the world to > see > in its splendiferous glory. It's not a religious (or sacrilegious) > thing, > it's sentimental. I really just love my machine and I'm not quite ready > to > retire it yet. I whole heartedly agree. I still have my 1st Mac (Performa 400) in my closet. I'm always tring to find a new use for it. (If I can find an Ethernet PDS and SCSI adaptor I'll turn it into an email server:) Hell, I routinely buy old Mac equipment just for nostalga. That is how I aquired my 512K, Portable, IIcx, 3 IIci's (those are servers), a IIfx (server) and my very active Quadra 700 that I got at a junkyard (in perfect condition for $5). The Quadra is run into a KVM switch along with my S900 and plugged into my 19" monitor. I still use it a few times a week. Now if I could get my friend to give up one of his NeXt Stations :) > I personally > enjoy learning the command line on a Mac and compiling my own Unix apps > while still looking at a pretty desktop picture, lovely photo-realistic > icons, and an amusing, bouncy, elastic dock-launcher thing. I absolutely > dreaded working on the Solaris/SunOS terminals at school but since OS > X, I'm > seeing Unix in a whole new light and I'd like to explore this also on my > C600, which should be able to run Unix just fine given its resources > already. I must agree once again. I never would have though I would ever use a Unix machine. After getting use to X, I can barely stand OS9. It drives me nuts everytime I have to wait for one program to load before I do something else. I see why Unix has endured for 20+ years. > The tricky part is getting all that cycle-swallowing, RAM-hogging > GUI Mac stuff to run on top of Unix. You could always go the other way. Download Darwin from opensource.apple.com and then run Xfree86 on it. Xfree is a lot less CPU hungry than Aqua. (It flies on my S900) -Robyn -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
