At 11:34 -0400 on 30/07/01, Terry Mathews wrote:
>Get a cheap x86 box to play with *BSD or Linux. There's no good reason to
>use it on a Mac. In the x86 world, you'll have more available compiled
>applications, better hardware support, more functionality, and better speed
>per MHz than a Mac. You could most likely sell your Mac LC on the swap list
>and use the money to get a cheap Pentium box out of the classifides of your
>local newspaper.
Ahem. I dunno about your local newspaper but folks here want $150 for a
Pentium 100 box, which is insane.
That said, there's absolutely no reason NOT to use an old Mac (particularly
an 040-based one) for NetBSD or something other than the lack of a PS/2
connector. If you need to run PS/2 stuff (CueCats come to mind as the only
real application of this), then yeah, get some sort of Linux on an x86 box.
Otherwise, you're not really losing anything, and you can probably get an
ancient Mac cheaper than an ancient PC simply because people don't know
what the heck to do with an ancient Mac.*
*Of course, my local paper also has LC IIs for $250 in it...
p
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