5 Nov
2012
5 Nov
'12
3:48 p.m.
Am 05.11.2012 um 23:59 schrieb David Riley:
OT 1.1.2 behaved slower on my IIfx than "classic" networking. Pity I
lost the benchmark notes. :-/ I'd recommend OT for fast 040 or PPC
machines.
MacTCP 2.1 has been patched so you can enter fields similar to
OpenTransport TCP/IP-Settings. Watch out for it!
Btw, Apps: Don't even think about running any browser under anything
older than OS X 10.3.9. Most sites nowadays use HTML-features, old
browsers just don't understand. Either they look crappy or some
JavaScript crashes Netcrap or Internet Exploder. Most don't understand
PNG-Graphics. I won't even talk of NCSA Mosaic or some text-only
browsers. (I did not test iCab recently.) And if that's not enough,
running Netcrab 4.5 even on a PMac 7100/66 is painfully slow compared
to what I'm used to from my main Mac (Dual PMac G5 at 2GHz). And this
machine is also a few years old...
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).
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!
It basically works. You'll have to install 1.1 first and then upgrade
to 1.1.2. The OT-On/Off-Switcher is a special kind of App which 7.1
doesn't understand: It thinks it's a plain document. It's unusable for
that reason.
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.
With a bunch of retro machines, there's no reason to miss it ;-)
7.5.x can run fine on 4MB machines and doesn't
feel sluggish on an
'030 like 7.6 does.
On 4MB machines? You don't have much RAM free for Applications, then,
I suppose?
:wq! PoC