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From: Karl MAFTOUM
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
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Jonathan Michaels (jlm@caamora.com.au) wrote: : Hello all, : i have a friend who has a macintosh, it is a basic machine lcii : i think, i am not to sure, is thier a version of linux that : will run on this and use the standard as supplied by apple 80 : meg apple scsi hard disk and some sort of apple certified cdrom : drive : . IIci = 68030 CPU Check out shadow.cabi.net and look in the archives section for the latest on Linux/Mac68k : also what would the chances of the apple version working on : what is called a apple mac classic .. it has appletalk, an : aftermarket 300 meg scsi and some 4 meg of dram. both of these : machines are in the same office and can be memorey upgraded, if : required. : just as an aside, how much memory would be required ? The problem with a Mac Classic is that it is a 68000 processor (just a big Mac Plus really) and has no MMU, which means there is no memory protection etc and therefore cannot run Linux . If you just want to play with unix there is MacMinix but it is very limited. Cheers Karl : -- : -- : Caamora : ______________________________________________________________ : PO Box 2036 : Clovelly West NSW 2031 Australia data +61 2 : 96659249 : ------------------------------------------------- : <jlm@caamora.com.au>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,b0fe57ffac3669e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: maftoum@science.canberra.edu.au (Karl MAFTOUM) Subject: Re: old mac's and linux Date: 1997/09/22 Message-ID: <342685d7.0@herald.canberra.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 274511369 References: <wgcid$13$g1000$h107$i0$j424747b0@caamora.com.au> Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux