dan.dem
Well-known member
I was once the owner of a 6100. As many, I had big expectations of RISC machines. I had seen some nice Sun and Apollo workstations at university and was awaiting something similar powerful. Not surprisingly I was very disappointed about the performance of my 6100.
Today I still like its looks . Wth an Apple 16 inch display on top it delivers at least the proper workstation look of the early 1990s. And I think the 601-processor is not that bad if you only put an appropriate OS on it.
The question is what OS?
I think nothing useable resulted from Taligent, and Copland never went farer than alpha-quality software. I am not even sure that it will run (or at least crash) on a 6100.
A support technician at work once put MkLinux on my abandoned 5200 (sorry fans, but I only got around when I installed MacBugs on it, so I could at least close open files and avoid disk corruption after each crash). I guess MkLinux may work on a 6100 too.
Any other suggestions? Some reasonable good X-Windows support would be nice.
Today I still like its looks . Wth an Apple 16 inch display on top it delivers at least the proper workstation look of the early 1990s. And I think the 601-processor is not that bad if you only put an appropriate OS on it.
The question is what OS?
I think nothing useable resulted from Taligent, and Copland never went farer than alpha-quality software. I am not even sure that it will run (or at least crash) on a 6100.
A support technician at work once put MkLinux on my abandoned 5200 (sorry fans, but I only got around when I installed MacBugs on it, so I could at least close open files and avoid disk corruption after each crash). I guess MkLinux may work on a 6100 too.
Any other suggestions? Some reasonable good X-Windows support would be nice.