18 Jun
2003
18 Jun
'03
7:52 a.m.
> > I like the LC 475 for it's compactness
while still having a
> > powerful 040, and the 630 for it's extensibility. 56 MB of
> > RAM in a 68k Mac is just to good to be true.
> Yes, but I have 128MB in my IIci :-))))
Now tell me, a 25 MHz 030 on 128 Meg, or a 33 MHz 040
on 56 Meg, what's supposed to give you a better user
experiance?
Ok, if you use a bloated thing like unix, then maybe
Memory is more important, cause it's already slow :)
For a Mac, Made to work quite fine with 8-12 MB, 56
is basicly unfillable.
Serious, if you had said a Quadra 950, with 256 MB RAM,
I'd had to give in, but below that, nothing beats the
630/640 DOS. It has a huge RAM size and soppurts standard
PS2 RAM (cheap), has an extended LC slot, so supporting
Regular LC Cards and extended ones. Not to mention the
additional communication slot for Networking cards and
the video slot.
Ok, it's not a 'general' slotsystem, but then again
who cares? If I can plug in whatever needed it's all
I need. I'm not that exalted to require my cards to
be pluged in in alphabetic order :)
My friend and I are collaborating on juicing a IIci as
high as it will go.
Right now it has 128MB RAM, two SCSI disks (No floppy mod) a Daystar 100MHz
PowerPC upgrade card, and a fast Radius video card. I'm working on a fast
SCSI controller, and maybe a faster video card.
What would be the fastest video card you could drop in
a classic, NuBus
based Mac? I've got a Radius 24MXtv that's about the old equivalent of a ATI
All-in-wonder, all singing and all dancing, but drivers are impossible to
find.
Nice, but wouldn't it be more interesting to get the
best possible base (like a Q950) before starting the
fine tuneing? If the engine is already weak, big tires
don't realy change the experiance.
Gruss
H.
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