29 Nov
2005
29 Nov
'05
10:43 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Jim Leonard once stated:
At work I have an SE30, LC, IIci, and a 603 variety mac just... lying around.
Are these things as common as dirt, or should I snag them?
I ask because I'm reminded of the "x86 dead zone" -- a zone where a machine
isn't old enough to be compatible with older software, but isn't new enough to
be useful (a Pentium 133 falls into this category -- can't run old stuff, can't
run new stuff, so toss it in the garbage).
Well, only if you mean Microsoft stuff. Get an older distribution of
Linux and it'll work fine. I have an old AMD 586 I still use, and it has
not only some very old Unix software I wrote in the early 90s on it, but
even newer stuff like the latest version of Samba and Apache.
-spc (In fact, Linux up through perhaps 1.2 should be on topic ... )