On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 01:55 AM, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
>> Yes but in that case System 6 won't do much for it either because it
>> ultimately depends on the hardware, a you rightly say. A 68k Mac
>> struggles to saturate 10baseT anyway (unless it's a late Quadra, that
>> can saturate it just) neither my SE/30 or my LCIII(475) come close.
>
> System 6 makes a whole lot of difference. You won't believe how much
> better it is than system 7 at I/O stuff. It is a totally superior
> server OS. I can't help it. It is just the truth. System 7 is very
> inefficient.
Yes, you could say that. All that stupid new-fangled PPC code I guess.
Still, I need 7.1 or later so it's a bit academic. I'm afraid I'm stuck
with crappy 7.1 ;).
>> Erm, he whole internet thing in the title was a minor give away wasn't
>> it ;).
>
> Yep, but in the text you were constantly talking about a server. The
> machine you are using isn't a server. It is a Mac running a software
> router.
If I'm not mistaken a server is defined a computer that provides one or
more services to a network. Routing being a service I think it
qualifies. Besides it is also serving DHCP, DNS and HTTP to my internal
network so it is a server not just a router.
> No it wasn't solid. Maybe compared to 7.5.
You mist do nasty things to it - it crashed one and it was a bad
extension. I admit I only ran Word 5.1 and FMPro 3 on it most of the
time but it was solid for me.
> Mmmmm... I take it you are not the one paying the electricity bill in
> your household. Otherwise you might think a bit different about it...
Naah, I live with my folks :). I pay it at University but we have gas
heating and so it is relatively cheap even with 15 computers going at
once (including 2 servers). I won't need my IIci's services at Uni
though so it won't be on all the time.
> It doesn't even come close to Mac OS 8.1. And if you like, I can also
> give you a not so modern comparison... I happen to know this OS that
> is much stabler still than 9.1, but I guess you already know which
> system I'm talking about.
Sys 6 is all well and good if you have a 1990 or earlier machine. It
won't run on most machines made after 1991 though so that rules out all
but 2 of my machines. The LC would run it but it's my shiny 'as is'
original 1991 LC with Claris Works 1.0 and a stonking 512MB VRAM and 4MB
RAM.
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