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Blame Apple. Top secret fees, overpriced docs. Apple wanted 895 dollars for the programming manuals for newton. DOCUMENTATION! Microsoft that same time frame gave away cdroms full of documentation and compilers and debugger for a grand total of 35 dollars shipped to you. 35 dollars for...

Not true, There was a MP version of the 9500 in the 1990's! Umax made a MP 3rd party model too! (I wrote a driver they sold with each Umax)) Apple has had various official MP (multiprocessor) libraries for years for people writing vertical market solutions to PROPERLY share multiple cpus on a...

traq, I do not know if your response was in regards to my written words, but my written words precisely were : "Adding a SCSI Manager 4.3 "XPT layer" (for ancient machines) is not impossible or hard. FWB did it (loaded a clone of a fake SCSI Manager 4.3 on non 4.3 compatible macs). So many...

http://osdir.com/ml/netbsd.ports.mac68k/2005-01/msg00017.html explains where Michael Zucca tried to get 840AV working faster, I wonder if he actually got sync working but did not know that on a wide variety of scsi errors, sync is lost and you need to monitor and restore sync mode? But...

I finally read this thread. I have written many award winning scsi drivers, as well as designed SCSI host bus adapters (HBA) for the macintosh. In fact I an a main author of what was used by 18 different companies such as Club Mac and APS and Atto and many more (Apollyonics SCSI Director...

The MDD machine I am typing on now is a dual 1.83 Ghz PowerPC, i bought as a stock upgrade. Boots Mac OS fine (the reason i got it) (9.2.2) . Uses both cpus in os9. i do not have proper cooling to play timing boost games. Its a Encore MDD MDX Duet for xServe or MDD Sadly I lose the third level...

Wrong. The Nike I am describing was presented to Apples board in 1994 and work performed on it by the same groups that worked on Brutus , Swee Pea, Pippin. 1994 is way way before the ipod ! The first mp3 player in history was in 1997 (MPMan), the first hard drive one proposed was a few years...

I have a wild theory, and its an ugly and pessimistic one. BAD SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING, NOT HARDWARE. True, salt ions in the air can corrode contacts if you live near an ocean, and true, some capacitors from a certain era on all motherboards will fail because the stolen chemical formula...

That page is interesting but is missing lots of data. Pippin, Nike, Swee' Pea (Sweet pea), and Brutus all we from same apple division. few are ever discussed on the internet. In fact I can't google up any info on Nike, Swee' Pea (Sweet pea), and Brutus. Nike = iphone sized mac OS wrist strap...

slomacuser, if you like really early After Dark screensavers you can already run them in OSX and run them as a full screen screen saver, stopping it by eventually moving mouse or using keyboard), and selecting your own inactivity start timer too. "Really?" you ask? Yes. I tried it an hour ago...

Scott, The longest stream of consciousness diatribe ever to be seen here… announcing : Copious ramblings by me brought about by your T-Shirt comments herein : Incidentally, most foreign territories for software purchases have to go through thuggish regional distributors that buy and "own" the...

SEA (self extracting archives) , I am pretty sure, have two file forks and all non mac OSses destroy the shorter file fork. In your case the resource fork. This destroys password protected stuffit files also. Stuffit put the password in a second file (a resource fork file) that windows will...

Although there are published specs for writing 3rd party After Dark modules (Those also work with Tom Dowdy's "DarkSide of the Macintosh"), some of the more treasured ones are commercial offerings that violate the rules, published by Berkeley Systems themselves. Berkeley Systems, in “Star...

Techfury90, you say "The Jackhammers only are 20 MB/s" I bought six of them new (different type), and have to proclaim that three of the pci ones with 6 seagate 12450Ws total were faster in benchmarks than the unix NULL device on a high end sun workstation, which did not have to actually even...

Hi, I stumbled upon this group today. I am the main author of "You Bet Your Head!" from AD 3.0 and my name is James M (the full name is in the module, but I do not like to see my name on the internet) I can get ALL of these to run again, if you really need it and if i have time. Or I can...