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Debian still works fine on PPC, and there's even a fork (MintPPC) specifically geared toward it.

AFAIK the AirPort cards are just PCMCIA, right? I think it's a Broadcom chipset, which is always a pain from a third-party hacking standpoint, but IIRC it's been documented enough to be supported in Linux. The big question I'd have is whether the OS9 software for wireless support is...

Now we just need WPA/WPA2 for OS9 wifi and we'd be set ;)

I think the deal was that the Mac was never really a hardware-centric system to begin with. C64, Amiga, Atari, even the IBM PC had a defined hardware standard that democoders could rely on so that they could work as close to the bare metal as they felt comfortable with, which was a big advantage...

I suppose that's true, although it had more to do with specific programs (i.e. Cubase) than with the system itself (beyond its admittedly spiffy inclusion of MIDI out-of-the-box.)

Commodore: Understood the value of hardware acceleration for multimedia right from the start. Embraced third-party hardware expansion from the get-go. Had true preemptive multitasking and a well-documented high-efficiency kernel. Had only basic memory management, with a tendency to...

I will pledge my undying loyalty to anyone who writes a WPA supplicant for OS9, let me tell you.

You'd still need to go to the trouble of building the thing, and that seems like a lot of bother just for a novelty web browser.

Yeah, but that's cheating. A 68k Mac deserves to be more than just a glorified terminal.

Well, there's always that ;)

Including accelerator support doesn't mean it couldn't run on most all 68k Macs - you can support hardware without requiring it. The difference is that the AV Mac DSPs are something 68k Mac users might actually have. Unless there's already an FPGA-based 68k Mac add-on out there to target (is...

The DSP in the AV Macs is an AT&T 3210; I know I've seen the Mac dev tools for it around somewhere, but I can't recall exactly where.

I can get slow but usable browsing with iBrowse on an A1200 with a 50MHz 030 (and with no L2 cache, the difference between a 50Mhz 030 and a 16-33MHz 030 is not all that great.) I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that an SE/30 with a well-coded browser could get similar results.

Ooh. Looking forward to this :D

"Mom, does your SE/30 carrying case ever get that not-so-fresh feeling?"

(Also, as concerns the "cloud" discussion: yes, in the grand scheme of things they're no more or less inherently vulnerable than any Internet-facing system. But, as you say, they're a high-value target - and more importantly, they're a high-value target that a disconcertingly large number of...

There's a difference between "not worried about" in the sense of "don't think it's a problem" and "not worried about" in the sense of "don't think it's something to get openly worked up about because nobody is under the illusion that it's a good thing in the first place." Poisoned DNS servers...

But hey! The Internet of Things is totally the future! What could go wrong!?

I got here without any trouble (aside from the error messages,) and Netscape isn't even optimized for heavy Javascript usage like modern browsers...

I dunno; I was surprised by how generally zippy Netscape was when I tried it (I didn't even have to turn off Javascript for performance reasons so much as just to get rid of all the error-message popups.) Doubtless a newer browser with CSS and such would be slower, but still, you never know.