19 Oct
2000
19 Oct
'00
7:30 a.m.
Hi Carlos,
Thanks a lot, Bill!
Anytime :) Glad I could help..
My plan now is to
beef up the IIci with the accelerator, more memory, a video
card and I'll have a neat, small 68K-based Mac II to play with.
I will be limiting the mac side of my collection to a Classic II,
an SE/30, the accelerated IIci and an 8100.
Does the accelerator solve the memory addressing problems in the IIc
series? These models have 2MB of RAM built-on , plus two 30-pin sockets
which will take 4MB SIMMS. Problem is, even with two 4MB SIMMS installed,
the machine will only recognize a total of 10MB of RAM, not the 12MB that
is physically present.
If that 68030 accelerator card also comes bearing an 68882 FPU, the system
can then be used to run NetBSD (one of the free UNIX-like operating
systems). For that matter, it might also run the M68K linux, but on 10MB
I'm not sure how these systems will perform. FWIW, the SE/30 will also run
NetBSD, and that model can easily be expanded to 32 or 64MB of RAM.
Bill Layer
Sales Technician
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