On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Andy Ball wrote:

> 
> Hello Gabriel!
> 
>   GR> Right. And I don't think you'll have to do anything
>     > special with that machine. (Besides deal with the fact
>     > that it's pig slow. ;^>)
> 
> Are you saying that the Quadra 700 will be pig slow?  It's
> the fastest 68k Mac that I have :-/  It's only 25MHz, so I'm
> not expecting blistering speed from it, and don't plan to
> try running X.
>

I run NetBSD 4.2 on a Q700, and while I will immediately admit it is
pig-slow compared to my Dual PIII-700 Linux setup, the Q700 was a pretty
fast 68k mac. Some people might have 800s or 840s kicking around, but
other than that, I don't think you'll find a faster 68k mac than the Q700.
That said, make sure it has enough RAM. I run 20MB, that seems plenty.
I can confirm that the Q700 is more than adequate for ADSL or CableModem
routing tasks, I can runf dhcpd, sshd, named, and all the other local
network services I want except nfs. nfs is a bit slow...

Incidentally, the Q700 is still running fine with a 33MHz cache upgrade
card of some kind in there....


>   GR> If you're having trouble locating a tranceiver, email
>     > me off the list. I may have a spare one lying around I
>     > can let go for, like, a dollar over postage cost. (I
>     > don't promise I actually still have an extra, but I'm
>     > glad to check.)
> 
> Thanks.  I'll check locally and then drop you an email.
> 
>   GR> Haven't messed with Mac IIs and NetBSD, nor with the
>     > DayStar cards 68030 cards at all, but skimming that
>     > conversation made it sound like this was a
>     > peculiarity of the cache structure of the DayStar
>     > card, not the processor itself. So regular, un-
>     > accelerated, macs should be fine without extra effort.
> 
> Well, I may give it a try on the Quadra 700 for a while, and
> upgrade to something a wee bit faster later on.
> 
> Regards,
>   - Andy Ball.
>