On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 01:45 AM, Dan Knight wrote:
> It's Mac or Macintosh, not MAC. MAC (all caps) is the machine address on
> an ethernet card.
I always wondered how it came to be called a MAC address. You learn
something new everyday ('Life' cliche No.65).
> Count yourself fortunate. Even my PowerBook G4 locks up sometimes.
You don't still use OS 9.1 on it do you Dan, tell me it ain't so....
<worried face>.
> That said, you're just ranting. You're not asking for help. You're not
> telling us what your setup is so we can help. You're using a very old,
> very unstable piece of software and bitching about it.
What is more he is shouting too much, I nearly went deaf (blind?)
reading that e-mail.
> The 8 MHz 68000 will hold its own against an 8 MHz 80286.
Wow, for once I was right without knowing what I was talking about ;).
> Well, that really depends on how slow your hard drive is. Any drive made
> since about 1990 should have a nice on board cache to optimize file
> transfers, but if you happen to have an older drive without a cache, I
> imagine it could be really, really slow.
Errr, Dan you, or someone on LEM, benchmarked the Quantum 500MB drives,
they are not that fast at all. I find the 250 and 512MB LPSs I have in
my machines are demoralisingly slow, the biggest insult was Apple dared
to give them away with the 840av, blatantly not an appropriate choice of
hard disk IMHO. That's a different story though, I suppose they would be
fast as far as a Classic is concerned.
> Find a faster drive and ditch System 7.0 in favor of 7.1 or 7.5.x.
Don't do 7.5 on a 68000, you'll slow it down even more. 7.1 is ideal
though.
>> Since I installed WinXP on both my PC's, I have had not a lick of an
>> error
>> from them!
>
> That's simply flame bait. No trolling allowed on the list.
It's also blatant BS ;). sorry that's probably flamebait too, sorry
sorry sorry.
> I wouldn't go that far. It's really just an updated Plus or SE. Same
> speed, same CPU, same RAM limit, same 9" 512x342 display.
It's an SE with a crippled RAM system, the SE takes up to 16MB
(astounding in 1986!!) but the Classic, as we all know, only takes 4MB
max. The original SE logic board in an Classic case would have been much
better :).
> Even a 1996 Mac Plus can run System 7.5.5, so your hardware is not
> incapable of working reliably. Ditch System 7.0 in favor of a more
> recent
> version; revision .0 software tends to be a bit buggy. You'll be much
> happier with 7.1 or 7.5.x.
7.1, 7.1, 7.1, 7.1, oh you get the idea....
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