Re: Expectations for a performa (was [tech]Re: gcc 3.x with Openbsd src tree)

At Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:57:59 +0900 [email protected] wrote:

>I need to move ahead faster than that. I guess I'd do better to go get a
>used G3 or go to the DIY and put together an i386 box to learn on, and
>play with these performas when I know a bit more about what I'm doing.

Quite right. There's no doubt the i386 platform is better supported for
all Unices. 

I feel like I was crazy to even try to learn on mac68k: I was trying to
learn Un*x, systems administration, all on the old Mac hardware. Frankly
I was bonkers. Given that you can pick up an old Pentium 133 with 32MB of
RAM for nothing, or next to nothing, I'd go with that if you want to
learn from scratch. You can't learn much without a running system, and if
it's really hard to build a running system you run the risk of never
learning anything. Which would be a shame.

Good luck.

D.

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