Hello,

> just a few days ago, a friend of mine gave me some old Asante Ethernet
> adaptors for PDS.

By PDS you are talking about the NuBus / PDS slot in the Performa 475 type
machines?

> Assuming they are not broken: Should they work right out of the box, or do
> I have to recompile the kernel or something?

Well, recompiling the kernel to slim it down never hurts, but they will
work without doing anything (except ifconfig, of course!)

> Right now, I use my P475 as a development platform, but as the C++ code
> grew, it became a real pain to work with. Consequently, networking with the
> 475 as a combination of NFS-Server, X-Terminal, and Platform for C
> programming would be very tempting.

I have many Quadra 605 / Performa 475 machines. They are excellent,
overclock easily to 40 MHz, and now I've found a cheap source of 64 meg
SIMMs. Interested in learning more?

> Thank you in advance,

No problem.

> P.s.: Isn't it sad that the 3.1 release of GCC declared 68k platforms
> obsolete? Not that it would matter that much, but I think that 68k had one
> of the coolest assembly languages there ever was.

What do they know? The VAX people have modernised the GCC toolchain and
plan to have the GCC people reintegrate VAX support based on the NetBSD
work.

Declare something obsolete, and enough people will get upset enough to
prove it's not obsolete.

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs