Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t
wrote:
> That's not an option for me. My Macintosh has only a 69030 CPU, too
> slow to do PPP/SLIP efficiently, and only 8MB of RAM, thrashed
> horribly in 1998 when I tried a free one-month trial of AT&T
> WorldNet, took 20 minutes just to download the AT&T WorldNet home
> page, and 5 minutes just to scroll **LOCALLY** when I clicked the
> scroll bar on MS-IE after the page was already downloaded to MS-IE.
:
:
> quarter-minute and a full minute. But that's only on a computer
> fast enough with enough memory to run PPP or SLIP efficiently.
:
:
> If I could run the Web from here, without images, but spend the
> extra quarter-to-full minute to download an occasioal image
> deliberately, that would be entirely reasonable.
Not that you're likely to want to go this route, but if it were a
high priority for you to achieve this, you could probably pull it
off by installing NetBSD on that machine as a replacement for Mac OS.
A Motorola 68030 is not a very fast CPU, but with a well-implemented
TCP/IP stack and serial driver, it should be able to sup****t PPP at
19200 BPS, given the proper software, and I would expect NetBSD to
be able to do that.
The mac68k ****t is still apparently maintained, judging by the fact
that the latest release, NetBSD 4.0, is available for mac68k:
http://www.netbsd.org/****ts/mac68k/
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0/mac68k/INSTALL.txt
Of course, you would have to give up the Mac-ness of the system,
but in exchange you would gain the ability to run lots of modern
Unix software. Much of what has been ****ted to NetBSD should run
on the mac68k edition.
NetBSD/mac68k sup****ts the Performa 600, and has a minimum memory
requirement of 8 MB, so it may be able to run OK on your hardware.
I'm not saying that it's a good idea, but it would be fun to try
as an experiment, just to see if it would work.
- Logan
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