5MB is pretty tight to run 7.5 + Open Transport. I've got a Quadra 650 with
8MB DRAM, System 7.5.5, and Open Transport 1.1.2 (The most stable
configuration) and the system takes up about 3.5MB, stripped down. I'd stick
with classic networking and MacTCP 1.0.6 (Latest version I belive)
If you could find a bit more RAM, kick the disk cache up to 768k. This won't
really increase disk performance that much (System 7 disk cache sucks) but
it will boost video speed, which uses DRAM as VRAM, and setting disk cache
to 768k forces the video system to use the faster memory on SIMMs than the
really slow on-board 1MB of DRAM.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <ckaiser_at_oa.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:20 AM
Subject: Semi-OT: Mac IIsi and Open Transport
> This is semi-OT, since the IIsi has two years to go before it's on topic
:-)
>
> For a Commodore nut, I sure seem to be doing a steady traffic in Apples.
> From the same place I got the SE/30 and the IIgs ROM 3, I also picked up a
> IIsi. After some cursing because it was set up with At UnEase, I rigged a
> boot disk, trashed AE and started poking around.
>
> It's an '030 with 5MB RAM running System 7.1. I'm finally seeing value in
> the tuition I pay to Loma Linda University, since I basically went to the
> System Folder on all their System 7 Macs and grabbed all the extensions
and
> control panels. Surprisingly, at least to me (the systems in question were
> 7.5 or later), this seemed to work EXCEPT for OpenTransport. PC Exchange
> purrs like a kitten and I'm able to handle ProDOS and DOS like a pro. (By
> the way, what files does ProDOS 8 need to have on the disk for it to be
> bootable?) But the IIsi simply refuses to mount OT.
>
> I downloaded 1.0.8 from the Apple support site and tried that, but it
simply
> said it could not be installed on this particular model and gave no
further
> explanation. The readme asserts that it will run on '030s and 7.1, though,
> for all the versions available from asu.info.apple.com. However, they
appear
> to be updates, not installs (except for 1.0.8, the 1.1.x versions say that
> 1.1 must be installed already).
>
> Simply copying the libraries and the Shared Library Manager into the
> Extensions folder doesn't work. It just ignores them, and when I try to
> start the TCP/IP or AppleTalk control panels, it whines that OT is not
> running. Copying fresh ones from the "uninstallable" install disk doesn't
> do any good either.
>
> Any suggestions? I'm really hoping to avoid having to make the monster
(for
> this poor thing) download of 7.5+ from the Apple support site if I can
avoid
> it. I don't mind System 7.1 at all, really.
>
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> -- Dalai Lama to hotdog vendor: "Make me one with
everything." ----------------
>
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 12:25:32 BST