Thanks, Scott. Gaming is most of what I am doing...playing the older games that I miss from my classic Mac OS days.
Oh that note, does anyone have a 25mHz 68040 that they want to sell me? If not, I'll jump over to LEM. Thanks! - J. Alexander Jacocks Falls Church, VA, USA 22046 On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Depends on what you're doing with it. For general OS, word processing, > internetting, etc... not a whole lot. Most of that doesn't hit the FPU > at all. > > If you're looking to do some gaming with the fancier later games, or > Photoshop, or some other specific things, it would have a pretty huge > impact. > > Scott > > J. Alexander Jacocks wrote: >> On a connected topic, how much of a difference in performance would it >> make, to replace the 25mHz 68LC040 in a Quadra 605 with a full '040? >> >> Thanks! >> >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Derek Morton wrote: >>> >>>> Since the (real) Mac OS and all Mac OS applications run in the same >>>> (supervisor) memory space, it doesn't seem like there would be any >>>> need for the MMU except for VM... That said, the lack of an MMU >>>> would prevent the running any Unix OS as they all (to my knowledge) >>>> require it. >>>> >>>> Derek >>>> >>> The only UNIXy thing that works would be MacMinix, since it runs as an >>> application in Mac OS rather than a standalone OS. It's pretty limited >>> though, really only good for playing with something remotely UNIX-like >>> and learning the basics of command line rather than getting anything >>> real done. >>> >>> Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
