Oh, there's no point at all beyond "Because I wanted to try". Just part
of the silliness I like to do.
The image is about 5GB. Not very much of it is used, I could probably
slim it down quite a lot. I'm mostly lazy. The drive I'm using is only
3GB total, and I have 2GB devoted to Linux and 1GB to Mac OS.
As for the network speed, given the SCSI speed it might actually have
been faster over the network than locally. I haven't benchmarked the
network speed but I only get about 1 - 1.5 MB/sec out of it. I'm not
sure if this is a factor of the drive or the SCSI drivers in Linux since
I believe it's supposed to be able to get 5MB/s.
When talking about speed, keep in mind we're talking about emulated
code. Fast optimized 68040 code was often faster than poorly written PPC
code in the very early 601 era. For this experiment it's having to
translate the PPC instructions to 68k before executing them - this is
always orders of magnitude slower than native code. It's just usually
you're emulating a slower, obsolete architecture on a much faster newer
architecture (think Rosetta on Intel Mac OS X running PPC code) rather
than the other way around.
Having an activity monitor auto-start is a good idea. I'll check on that.
Scott
On 1/10/2014 3:57 PM, Derek Morton wrote:
Ahhhh... Danamania... I wonder what she is up to these days?
I am not sure I see the point in this exercise, though a great deal of my ideas
are likely considered fruitless by most.
How large is the image you are running it from? You mentioned possibly
tweaking some of the settings - Perhaps having activity monitor autostart might
help you see if there is anything going on (and cpu usage). Do you think much
of the slow execution was due to network speed? Perhaps on a 950 with a nice
fast hard drive... Big display... Over-clocked...
I know our current machines are faster than older ones, but I really never
thought the PPCs were THAT much faster than the 68Ks... 3 days to boot?!?! LOL
Derek
On Jan 8, 2014, at 10:44 PM, Scott Holder wrote:
Picking up where Danamania left off many years ago, I finally got around to
trying to boot Mac OS X on my 68k Mac. I've created a page about it so far at
http://iamscott.net/68kosx/ . So far I seem to have gotten farther than she
did! I can't say it's exactly usable, per se, but we'll see what comes of it. I
also really, really need to get a decent camera and some studio lights...
Scott H.
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