Good stuff, JDW. I haven't yet tried to extend the process back a small notch from IIci/50MHz to SE/30, but I am sitting here with the root-level folder of my G4/1GHz DP displayed on a IIci. The IIci is using OS 7.6.1, Chooser 7.5.5, OT 1.1.2 and AppleShare 3.8.3. The IIci is a little slower than the G4 at calculating the G4's folder sizes, but the figure produced is accurate. The AppleShare version is that of choice when a IIci has been upgraded with any of the 40MHz family of '040-upgrade cards (MicroMac and Mobius for sure, and the DayStar doesn't mind at all), and does no harm to an '030 in a PowerCache card.

Was your copy of OT 1.3 bought, or chiselled out of a later OS than 7.6.1? When Time, the universal oppressor, will consent to lend me some part of its riches, I intend, if possible, to get 7.6.1 onto one of my SE/30s. There need be no problem arising from RAM availability in either a IIci or an SE/30, and the following offers some hope that the SE/30 will behave NuBussishly enough for the purpose:

The PDS in the SE/30 is a 120-pin, 32-bit PDS which provides both "common" and "machine-specific" signals. The common signals will be available across all 68030 PDS implementations, while the machine-specific signals will be available on future 68030 PDS implementations and may have new features added. On the SE/30, the machine-specific signals emulate equivalent signals on the NuBus expansion interface. This emulation means that expansion cards on the SE/30 may take advantage of the Slot Manager in ROM to communicate with the bus via a Declaration ROM on the card.

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