on 5/4/04 1:19 AM, Powermac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find that older macs have a tendency to take more ram then the same vintage PC, which allows the use of newer OS then the machine was originally built for. Still I could run windows 3.1 quite well on my 386/40 with math coprocessor and 32mb of ram if I wanted to (its used for old dos games and is equipped for that). In the past I have run windows 95 on a high end 486 system, and they generally max out at 64mb of ram.
The floppy install of 95 is very handy for this, no IE or Outlook or tpc stack allows for a better targeted system.
My oldest mac is a IIfx and runs OS 7.1 or is it 7.01 ok with just 20mb of ram (very hard to find a set of 4 SIMMs bigger then 4mb and too costly even if you did find some). Still even 20mb is more then enough for the programs of that vintage.
Agreed, its amazing what you can do with 20mb, its a shame about the ram in the fx, 1990-1992 was the option for 72 pin far off or did apple have a corner of the 64-pin market? ;)
Being able to upgrade the memory is nice, if you have the need for it.
The memory being an industry standard for its time also helps. I have need of a 16-32mb 72-pin SOdimm, keyway on the side of the pins rather than between them. I found a 16mb only to find it incompatible. The joys of oddball configurations.
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Hi Jeff.
Be THAT as it may, I can't get a 386/40 to email.
You have installed a tpc stack? I mean its not that hard. LEM has a lowend pc list which maybe of help.
I CAN get a Plus 68k/8Mhz. to email with 4MB of RAM, an external modem and just floppy driven softwares.
That must be fun, I'd avoid using anything floppy based on a mac, never ending disk swaps, it would amaze me if my mail servers had the patience to wait. Email is little more than a text editor with a console sending commands to your mail server. A decent term program is a better comparison.
Email, web browser, ftp, 68000, Amiga! no problem.
Without belittling this fine achievement we should keep in mind that the floppy based machine predates the web, personally I'd fire up the webtv unit instead.
If I want to, and it won't last but a minute, I can and HAVE made a Mac Plus websurf with an ancient browser on one disk and connectivity stuff on the other with only 4MB of RAM.
What do you browse with on a plus? MacWeb? How many disk swaps would be required for this lot to fly? You wont to compare port speeds?
The RAM is sparse in the Plus but the machine and it's GUI tend to show a simple superiority for that era that earned my respect through the ages.
So good they changed very little up to 1999 and then had to change the lot. So good everybody has a small part of the classic macos in front of them now.
Old pc's and ide macs share the same sorts of memory ceilings, is this a flaw with ide somehow?
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