On 4/13/05, Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing wrong with the shell,
It's... ideosyncratic, to say the least. I know DOS, CP/M, VAX-VMS, Unix, Acorn RISC OS and more & I couldn't make head or tail of it. No help, no nothing. Still, it is venerable. > the GUI is completely customizable. For free, with built-in tools? > Fusion > is the only mac emulator worth using, not the poxy pc port the one its > ported from. Noted. Ta. > No VM cause its not needed That's what Acorn said of RISC OS. They were wrong, too. > memory protection was better than the mac That's not saying much! Also, the lack of VM and management crippled AmigaOS's later development - even today in OS 4.0. > Can you piggy back 4 floppy drives on a mac? Today, yes. :�) But there was no want or need. A hard disk makes more sense. > The floppy drives also load quicker than those on a mac, sadly they dont > make the wonderous noises the mac floppy does. :�) > http://www.armory.com/%7Espectre/cwi/hl/ is a web browser for the > C64/C128. A platform I never did. I was a Sinclair Spectrum user in those days. Power without the price! > Mosaic or early version of Aweb surfs on a A500/68000 while > Voyager, Ibrowse or Aweb do a good job on 020 machines and up Java > finally included. Mine's a 1200 with a 25MHz '030 accelerator on OS 3.1. No networking, alas, so no Internet. Got SCSI, though! > Now you have a 030, why cant you find NS2 or a version of IE or icab or > some such, Ive backed up Gambas site a long time before he dissappeared. Not on System 6. I had MacOS 7.6.1 online on it /years/ ago; that's /easy!/ > For appletalk on BetaX try sheepsaver or BII as opposed to booting from > classic mode. I can use google with Macweb on a Classic the result page > will end the surfing session though Oh? Doesn't work for me. Just an error message about client-side redirection. > Ignored not forgotten, WinUEA, there is a mac port around, just one of a > multitude of emulators to play with. WinUAE. UEA is the University of East Anglia. I know - got it, played with it, years ago, before I had a real Miggy. But it is ignored, inasmuch as the lessons of these earlier machines were not learned and the PC design is only slowly and painfully incorporating some of them even today. On 4/13/05, Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Open Transport does have some quailties over Mactcp. Oh, I know, but MacTCP does the job. Also, the sites are unanimous that OT is really slow on '030 machines and in low memory. The Classic II is both. > Cant you install Mactpc and select between the two with the Network CP > installed by one of them? I don't know! I'll try... > If you have the 7.6.1 cd you > can remove Open Transport or do it by hand. Hmm. I have the 7.6 CD... > Another option is to partition the boot disk and run both sys6 and OS7.x > and change between the 2 at will. use the external for shared data - > well you get the picture. I have lots of old small SCSI drives and no better use for them... -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
