[tech] Mac stuff

[Simon Fryer]

Bingle

> A while ago Riff tapped:

> Alternatively, before I restart this particular flame thread, I'm led to
> believe there are Net and FreeBSD ports to m68k.

There is an OpenBSD post to the M68k platform. As an interesting side note, 
the packages for the M68k platform work on a number of different hardware 
platforms. My HP300 uses the same M68k packages as the Macs and a couple of 
other machines from memory. 

> After all there only terminals, so surely a purer ssh would be good.
> or at the very least, install a better ssh client (one that does
> colours), and perhaps nsca mosaic (if it still exists) to do X
> forwarding.

You clearly have not tried this. Let us just say that well, any graphical 
web browser generates a lot of X traffic. And well, ssh has to encrypt all
this traffic. Running on a slow CPU, the time required to encrypt and decrytpt
X traffic is significant. The HP300 I use has a 50MHz 68030 and this gave 
rather sluggish X performance when using X forwarding and SSH. I don't want to
think about this with anything slower. 

See Ya
Simon

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