Re: recent rasops commits vs. macppc

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:00:49 -0700
Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:

> > On Aug 4, 2019, at 9:29 AM, Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >   
> >> Yeah, I look to forward to playing with it :-).  
> > 
> > I have a few of them, there are a few quirks you may run into. If you
> > have questions don't hesitate to ask!  
> 
> Make sure you have a good, strong putty knife.

Or something equivalent, and several of them. I opened one of mine with
a bunch of hair pins, which wasn't fun.
Trust me, if your Mini doesn't come with 1GB of RAM, you *will* want to
upgrade it ( pretty much any PC2700 or 3200 DDR1 1GB DIMM will do, they
can be found for about $20 or less on ebay ).
For a small macppc box they can be surprisingly speedy - a 1.5GHz 7447
is nothing to sneeze at ( of course there are faster 32bit macs
available, but they're also much more expensive ) - but modern
compilers like gcc 7 or clang will eat up a lot of memory, like up to
1GB per compiler instance. Same with the internal disk - IIRC the
biggest disk Apple ever shipped in a G4 Mini was 80GB, and the lower
end models had 40GB ones. There are bigger and faster options available
for not much money. 

have fun
Michael