[LUAU] Minimum Macs

[Jim Thompson]

On Dec 13, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote:

> On Monday 2004-12-13 14:27, R. Scott Belford wrote:
>> Any idea on model or year that is a safe cut off for accepting Macs to
>> be used with Linux would be appreciated. --scott
>
> We can probably first eliminate the 68K Macintoshen, though there may 
> be
> unixen for them, can they handle current tools?  I haven't persued 
> *nix on
> 68K, though it may exist (MkLinux?).

linux won't run on a 68000, but it will on a 68020.   Probably too 
pokey for real work though.

> The first generation PPCs used the 601PPC chip from which we can take 
> the 6100
> as representative... it's a NuBus PowerMac (they basically just 
> changed the
> processor in otherwise existing designs), there WAS a MkLinux for it, 
> it MAY
> still be worthwhile, but NuBus is probably not what you wanna be 
> playing
> with.
>
> So, the FIRST cutoff is: does it have a PCI bus? That probably means G3
> minimum processor is already included.

Nope, the 7200/7500 had MPC601s in them.   A "G3" would be a 603. :-)