This is exactly an example of the strong points of Unix on m68k Macs or Macs in general - good quality hardware will run forever.
NetBSD is actively developed, and if people here know details about QuickDraw accelerating NuBus video cards, then X under NetBSD can be accelerated using whatever hardware acceleration is available. It's been added for all sorts of other obscure hardware including video cards for VAXen, so why not NuBus video cards?
One of the reasons that X on m68k NeXT machines was so fast was that those machines had hardware acceleration as well as hardware-based PostScript rendering, which was pretty cool. The philosophy was correct - push more work to hardware designed to do it and free up the main CPU for other things, not too unlike OpenCL nowadays. It just goes to show how long it takes for good ideas to get widespread acceptance sometimes.
In any case, if anyone is interested in getting NetBSD running on any of their machines, I'd be glad to help, particularly for anyone who'd like to get some use out of an LC040 system.
NetBSD is actively developed, and if people here know details about QuickDraw accelerating NuBus video cards, then X under NetBSD can be accelerated using whatever hardware acceleration is available. It's been added for all sorts of other obscure hardware including video cards for VAXen, so why not NuBus video cards?
One of the reasons that X on m68k NeXT machines was so fast was that those machines had hardware acceleration as well as hardware-based PostScript rendering, which was pretty cool. The philosophy was correct - push more work to hardware designed to do it and free up the main CPU for other things, not too unlike OpenCL nowadays. It just goes to show how long it takes for good ideas to get widespread acceptance sometimes.
In any case, if anyone is interested in getting NetBSD running on any of their machines, I'd be glad to help, particularly for anyone who'd like to get some use out of an LC040 system.