19 Jun
2003
19 Jun
'03
5:03 a.m.
A/UX Runs very snappy on my AWS 95. I'm waiting to get my network together
so I can NFS it some more disk space.
----- Original Message -----
From: "TeoZ" <teoz(a)neo.rr.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Souping up Classic Macs: was Reading various format 5.25"
floppies on a PC
I find my 840AV 68040/40 with 128mb ram to be pretty
snappy, same with my
Q950 (with server card + full cache simms) with 128+mb ram.
As far as unix on a mac goes, will let you know in a week or so when A/UX
3.0 with full manuals shows up on my doorstep.
I wanted to try A/UX out on my IIfx but with only 8mb or memory I would
either have to find A/UX 2.0 or more memory for 3.0 (both are hard to do
within $$$ reason).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Souping up Classic Macs: was Reading various format 5.25"
floppies on a PC
go.
NuBus
> >
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 > 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, > > 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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