Home▸ Forums▸ 68kMLA▸ NextSTEP for an old Quadra/Centris — #11
Post #11 by QuadSix50
Source Forum68kMLA
Category68k
Post DateThu, 9 Oct 2008 - 15:15
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/nextstep-for-an-old-quadra-centris.15145/
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My (limited) experience with NetBSD on my Quadra 700 tells me that the limiting factor is the hard drive. Untarring is slow. Moving files is slow. X isn't that bad though. Moving windows about and such is actually OK. It's not going to run Firefox, of course, but a text editor and an xterm or two will be fine.
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My experience with NetBSD is that disk speed isn't so bad, unless it's an AV model, in which case the speed is abysmal.

I agree that X isn't so bad, with a light WM (I'm fond of Blackbox) and basic apps.
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This is good to know as I've never actually gotten far enough to run X on 68K Unix. I've heard others say that it's unusably slow so I kind of took it at face value. :I

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