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    The first thread

    They were a clever hack (in the original sense) in that they used already built-in audio processing capabilities for serial port telephony. If you wanted to use an old Geoport mac dedicated as a modem/caller id machine- its great! The problem is the faster you want it and the more you use it-...
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    Do any *nix variants support 601 upgrades?

    Has this control panel/extension switcharoo worked with something else? How do you rename something to make it load first? As far as I know, the two ways to run BootX: as an application or as an extension, "and the only difference between the application and extension is that the extension...
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    Welcome the brand new *NIX forum

    AIX only ran on the Apple Network Server, which could not boot Mac OS (Boot-ROM was not compatible.)-- also not to be confused with the Apple Workgroup Servers and the Macintosh Servers. I've found an MKlinux release for x386 machines at ibiblio- I'm going to get it running someday and try to...
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    Tiger on a 603/604??

    I would think 68k hardware enthusiasts would naturally turn to alternative OS's. :?: When Mac code started to require PowerPC, and linux on the Quadra was shaky, I spent a lot of time with macminix, and some German professor's *nix running on MacOS- Mac06 - POSIX for MacOS...
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    Tiger on a 603/604??

    PowerPC Linux. Yellow Dog Linux. If you want the BSD family, NetBSD or OpenBSD. Yes, unixish (or un*x) software is a "necessity," because development = support. (I consider Googling forums and emailing strangers legitimate support, much better than I ever got over the phone) I've tried...
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    I've realised that my 6100 is rubbish... :-(

    It seems no one here has recommended MKLinux or Linux/PPC for Nubus? http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ 2.4 kernel You can also put Yellow Dog Linux 3.x and later?, on a 7100 or even a 6100, but you need an mklinux bootloader and follow instructions carefully. Linux is designed to increase...
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