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I remember setting up a IIci with a fast scsi drive and system 6. It booted in about 5 seconds. I don't think anything I've seen has come close to that fast unt
by wiredfool 12y ago
I remember setting up a IIci with a fast scsi drive and system 6. It booted in about 5 seconds. I don't think anything I've seen has come close to that fast until the era of SSDs.
Later, when I got my first DSL line, I had a different cast off IIci running netbsd doing NAT for my little network. That would have been 1997 or so, 640k symmetric, I think the IIci had 24 megs of memory or so. Old and slow at the time, but less powerful than this one.
- flomo 12y agoIIcis had some sort of onboard video which made them feel sluggish compared to similar Macs. We retrofitted them with cache cards (?) which helped a little. But, yep, very slow disks, System 7, and they IIRC had 4MB of memory. (24MB would have been an unimaginable luxury.)
- wiredfool 12y agoYep, ci's had onboard video, the cx didn't. I think that they were the first color/030 machines with onboard video. They always seemed fast to me, because I bought a Mac SE just before the classic/lc/si came out. That was when Apple did a massive sales push on campus in late August/early Sept, and announced new machines in October.
- flomo 12y agoIt was an era where you could "feel" things like a few CPU Mhz or a 32KB cache upgrade. And you had to pay hundreds or thousands for those little upgrades, so it had to be worth it. I stuck with a IIfx until Windows 95 came out, and learned that the little things (e.g. disk and video) to some extent matter more than the big things.