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Article #12333Re: MacPlus question
From: David C.
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 04:19
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 04:19
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NOT.diskworld@mac.com.INVALID (Zaphod B) writes: > > As an old Mac Plus user (gee, I loved that box!), I support Greg here. > All the System 6 variants (6.0 through 6.0.7 or .8), as well as the > early 7's, will work. If you opt for System 7, you'll need at least > 2MB of memory, preferably 2.5 or 4 (which is max). For that matter, if you don't need multitasking, I recommend not using Multifinder on system 6. This way, every app can use all your memory, at the expense of not having any multitasking ability. I've found that this isn't a bad tradeoff, since the Plus is really too slow to do much multitasking anyway. > I don't remember whether you can use anything higher than 7.1, and I > wouldn't anyway. 7.5/7.6 represent a huge memory bloat over 7.1, and > nothing much in the way of gains on a 68000-based b/white machine. It will go up to 7.5.5. (7.6 requires 8M of memory). > System 8 doesn't work on the Plus, I'm pretty sure. System 8 and 8.1 require at least 12M of memory and a PMMU. Which effectively means a minimum of a 68030 processor. 8.5 and up requires a PowerPC - it's not compatible with any 68K Macs. -- David
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X-Google-Thread: feb82,37621ba9a33f6672 X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,37621ba9a33f6672 X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb82,gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d4e81fc7!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,aus.computers.mac Subject: Re: MacPlus question References: <ZbVke.390$BR4.178@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <uce-C4C0C9.07284925052005@comcast.dca.giganews.com> <1gx4gdb.cx9fukk23ghbN%NOT.diskworld@mac.com.INVALID> From: shamino@techie.com (David C.) Organization: David's house of kumquats Mail-Copies-To: never Message-ID: <m2u0kqd3fi.fsf@qqqq.invalid> Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 04:19:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.149.110.191 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1117081186 66.149.110.191 (Wed, 25 May 2005 21:19:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 21:19:46 PDT