[rescue] mac model performance
Kurt Mosiejczuk
kurt at csh.rit.edu
Tue Jul 9 14:37:17 CDT 2002
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, William Enestvedt wrote:
> The x100 systems (the handily-thin 6100, the loathsome, craptacular 7100,
> and the hard-to-open 8100) are Nubus _and_ PPC, and they're the red-headed
> stepchildren of the pre-G3 Mac world. (Well, them and the II vx and II fx,
> but that's not important now.)
> Dollars to donuts, you'll find that most of the *nix-alikes will run on
> the fully-PCI x200/x300/x500/x600 systems, but not on the Nubus-based x100.
> *sigh*
Yeah. Well, I got the 6100/60AV AND a IIvx for $10 at the hamfest. It
was amusing. I offered him $10 for the 6100, and he looked at the mac
and me and then the mac again and then me again. Then he says "Sure, if
you take BOTH of them".
I had no problem with that =)
--Kurt
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