On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 04:08 AM, Tim Maloney wrote:
Amen. Even if you could get 256 megs ram on there, it would be slow. And
that larger ram for the older macs is wildly expensive, hundreds for two 128
meggers.
And Good luck finding a nubus G3 card. Very rare.
On 6/13/03 2:10 AM, "Philip Stortz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yes, like most things it's probably doable, if someone wanted to do the
hacking work. but besides the other problems mentioned, none of the nubus
macs have a powerful enough processor for os x to beat out an old sinclair
machine.... of course if you've added a g3 card, you might have the
processing power, but those cards are already grossly hampered by the bus and
memory bandwidth, ......
While I personally think trying to run OSX on a nubus mac is a total waste of time. The only possible reason I can think of is being able to say I did it!
Having said that lets be careful with the facts ;-) Nubus G3's upgrade cards are made by Sonnet and should be available all over the place. Here is OWC's current offering:
"Sonnet Crescendo/NuBus G3/500 MHz w/1024K Backside Cache for 61/71/8100 Macs. New with 3yr Sonnet Warranty. (STICFG35001M) more info... $199.95 "
later Will S
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