Vintage Macs and UNIX [ was Re: Netscape 3 Received Loud and Clear]

2005-10-05 Thread Andre Skarzynski
I know it is a personal choice, however, I feel a need to add my pennies worth. Historically, the wintel architecture is actually not ideal for a UNIX machine, mainly to the great big gaping whole in the memory map, a throwback from the 640k limit from the DOS PC days. The main issue with

Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

2005-06-30 Thread Andre Skarzynski
Yes they do; http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/ On 30 Jun 2005, at 11:51, Darren wrote: John Niven wrote: Well, I have to laugh, I just spent some time setting up a dual 200MHz Pentium Pro machine (lovely old Tyan m/b and 1Gb of ram!), hooked up to an old Apple 15AV monitor, and loaded

FW: Best said reference yet [Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???]

2005-06-09 Thread Andre Skarzynski
Hi, Here is an interesting piece a friend forwarded to me. Very scary... -- Forwarded Message From: Ernst du Toit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:41:47 +1200 To: Andre Skarzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Best said reference yet History repeats again: http