16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
7:45 p.m.
At 7:07 PM -0700 9/16/09, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
They're 603's, of course that is why! :-)
The worst part
is, SheepShaver was a commercial product.
Oh, I know. I *know*. I have the commercial SheepShaver running on the BeBox!
The problem is that the BeBox really isn't up to the task, at least not OS
8.6. I did get some more RAM for it and I'm going to try to tinker with
the settings, but it's pretty glacial and it pegs the core(s). They're just
603s and that's probably why. I bet an early G3 iBook would do the trick. You could
run 8.1 on that, like
a Rev B blueberryBook or something. I have exactly that, with 576MB of RAM,
and it's *very* happy in OS 9.2.2. :) My primary OS 9 machines, though, are
a dual 1.25GHz G4 MDD and a 867MHz TiBook G4. They do very, very well! :-D
The G3 iBooks are 8.6 or newer. My G4/450 is one of the original
shipment, so it will actually run a special version of 8.6. For a
laptop it looks like I would want a Wallstreet, or Wallstreet II G3
PowerBook with the larger screen. Realistically I should just revive
either the G4/450 or 8500/180. I know I can run the software on the
8500.
I was looking at the SAMflex 440EP boards myself.
Really, to make a platform
useful to me personally I need a decent browser and SSH, and I can make do
with that. OS 9 gives me MacSSH, I'm dragging Classilla slowly up to spec,
and I have my old apps library, of course. But on AOS 4.1 I was impressed
to find a port of OpenSSH, Origyn Web Browser has a very nice implementation
of webkit (rough in some places but more than functional), and of course
lots of other well-behaved older apps. I can get a complete system for around
a grand. Since I'm a nerdy bachelor, I am really, really tempted.
I was taking a look at AROS earlier today. I'm getting pretty
impressed there. You can buy systems in the UK now that dual boot
AROS and Ubuntu. It looks pretty easy to get the parts, it uses a
standard Intel 330 Atom motherboard. I've been wanting to get
basically the exact same system for another purpose, so am really
tempted to get the parts and build one. If I don't like it, or find
I'm not using it I can rebuild it for the purpose I had originally
planned.
BTW, I also noticed that Haiku has just released Haiku Alpha 1.
That's pretty impressive. I'm not sure if that puts them ahead of
AROS or not.
Zane
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