Apple Peforma 6200

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Sloppy:

As this fellow is a newbie, and really into the Performa series (for 
whatever reason) I was trying to spare him the sad details which 
fellows such as we would giggle and just guffaw about.  But yes, you 
are correct.  Not only that, I actually read worse.  The 603 was 
intentionally crippled by Apple to actually perform below it's 
capability.  I felt sorry for the fellow and yes, as you stated -- I 
left out the details, but the facts are now "out" or "outed", thanks to 
you.  But the facts were bound to come out anyway and soon enough, 
especially as there are no slouches on this list.

Oh well...

On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:17 PM, sloopy wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:33 -0500, Derick Centeno wrote:
>> Hi James:
>>  From what material exists regarding the Performa 6200, the 603 chip 
>> was
>> decent in it's time.  However, according to TSS page discussing what
>
> alot of interesting info on the 6200 from Derick here snipped out...
> the only comment i have on it is:
>
> the 603 wasnt that good of a chip, it was slow, apple put it some of 
> the
> worst designed ppc macs ever made, and should have been used for
> embedded and laptop use only... other then that it was a fine PPC
> chip ;')
>
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2006, at 7:38 PM, James Sanders wrote:
>>
>>> What is the latest version of Yellow Dog Linux that supports the 
>>> Apple
>>> Peforma 6200? I know I will have to use BootX.
>>>
>>> James Sanders_______________________________________________
>
>
> as for linux on the 6200... it is a nubus based mac, and therefore
> requires a nubus kernel, i am told/have read, that once you get a 
> kernel
> with nubus support a standard ppc distro will work on a 6200 (and the
> other nubus ppc machines, 6100/7100/8100/5200...) and for more info
> throw an eyeball around http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/
>
> sloopy.
>
>
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