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_at_mch20.sbs.de>
To: <cctalk_at_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
> > > > 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
go.
> > 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, NuBus
> > 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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Received on Wed Jun 18 2003 - 15:31:00 BST