5 Nov
2012
5 Nov
'12
2:59 p.m.
On Nov 5, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 5 November 2012 11:40, Schindler Patrik <poc at
pocnet.net> wrote:
Open Transport made things a lot easier in a number of ways, but it
is resource-intensive. An '030 machine might be able to handle it,
just consider "classic" networking if it really eats into your
memory.
OT 1.1.2 (which I think is the last separately-available version,
but someone should correct me if I'm wrong) will run on anything down
to 7.1 on a 68030 or later. Try it on whatever system you're running
your SE/30 on!
My personal opinion: Get System, 7.0.1 for free from Apple as download. It
behaves slower, yes, but you'll get way more programs to run. The machines
I'd stick to System 6 are 68000 at 8 MHz like the Plus, SE or comparables.
I agree.
In fact, for the SE/30, I'd say go for 7.5.5.
Networking Macs got a /lot/ easier between System 6 (arcane & quite
complex), 7.0 (easier), 7.5 (vaguely sensible) and 7.6 (really pretty
easy). System 6 doesn't really natively understand
networking. 7.0 does, but
only speaks Appletalk unaided. 7.5 has a vague notion of what TCP/IP
is but doesn't really approve of it. :?)
I disagree; MacTCP is a little funky, but I've used it to great
effect on 7.1 and 7.5 systems (and with somewhat more difficulty
on 6.x, but finding applications supporting TCP and 6.x can be
a challenge).
Appletalk, on the other hand, was easy enough from 6.x on. I
really miss it some days.
By 7.6 they'd given in and accepted it but your
SE/30's too old.
Indeed; I'm not actually 100% sure whether you can run 7.6 on
an SE/30 (I've certainly run it on '030 machines, but I don't
really recommend it). 7.5.x can run fine on 4MB machines and
doesn't feel sluggish on an '030 like 7.6 does.
- Dave