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Post #3 by Schmoburger
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Hmmmm yes much and all as I would love to make something that works on an ancient 9" 8Mhz machine, I'd tend to think it might probably be getting to the point of being unrealistic trying to work around those extreme limitations... 9' screen, a peanut for a processor, bugger all RAM and no real way to improve any of these hard and fast limitations. A /30 would be a little better for the task I dare say, and I am building it to be monochrome friendly, but I am thinking that the 16Mhz machines would likely be the lower limit of what is feasibly going to be tolerable to the average user. The novelty value of having a site that's browsable on a Classic or Plus is kind of cool, so I guess working around them for that reason is worthwhile, but I dare say that the old support library section would best be left to a more capable machine and transferred via sneakernet or localtalk rather than a direct download, as I can see it chioking on that gargantuan directory tree.

That being said, some things can be placed in a more easily accessible place if warranted... System 7 updaters for example. :)

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