Re: OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood?

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Doomsday Machine wrote:

"David A. Gatwood" wrote:

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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Doomsday Machine wrote:

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Well, besides it being completely off topic, the 145b is seriously
outdated.  It's fine for wordprocessing (I guess) but not much else.  I
guess if you really wanted to, you could probably load mklinux on it,

Umm... MkLinux only works on PPC machines.  That's a 68k.  Can run NetBSD,
though.

Didn't they have a version of mklinux for 68k?  Or maybe that was a link to
the linux/68k project...oh well, it's been a while since I ran mklinux on my
8500 :)

Yeah, that's a linux/68k project link.

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but that would be some work, cause it doesn't have a cdrom, and I don't
know if it can get ethernet hookups.

Not unless you happen to find one of the old Cabletron Ethernet to SCSI
adapters.  Asante's aren't supported under *BSD for usual corporate
reasons.

Yeah.  I suppose if you purchased the 145b, you could take out a serial
port, hardwire an ethernet port to it, write your own drivers...;-) 

True, it did have two.  If you're really enterprising, you might be able
to go above 56k....  ;-)


David


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