hrmm thanks! now if I can only get VI to edit my rc.conf! my mac keyboard is
one of those compact ones like 3in tall and a foot and a half wide so it's
not what you'd call a big keyboard... and what's the equivelant of a mac
"Esc" key in netbsd? I always used esc,esc to get into the command line of
vi what is it for netbsd?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael G. Schabert [mailto:mikeride@prez.buf.servtech.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 1998 4:36 PM
> To: Michael Joy
> Subject: RE: (off-topic)
>
>
> >well getting into a performa 630 requires taking off about 10 panels so
> >don't try unless you have time... Anyways it has a special power plug
> >connecter thing inside that's 50 pin scsi... It's running a Sony
> SCSI Cdrom
> >from Apple of some kind... It won't run any none apple cdroms without
> >special cdrom drivers like FBW Cdrom Toolkit (I have it).. Oh a quick
> >question how fast will netbsd run on a 33 mghtz 68040 33 mghtz processor
> >with 20 meg of ram? I'm hoping it'll ftp serve and telnet serve
> like a bad
> >boy.Oh and just to warn you I may be a little wierd with mac's
> cuz I'm a PC
> >Guru and a long time PC systems engineer.
>
> Hehe, as far as the speed....I guess that'd depend on what you're
> comparing
> it to ;-). It's 33 Mhz, after all, so it's hardly a speed demon by today's
> standards (it should be around a DX4/100 or a P60). BUT, FTP and Telnet
> don't eat CPU horsepower, so it'll do them quite nicely. FYI,
> www.macbsd.com is much slower than your Mac, as it's running on a 68030.
> Telnet's an interactive medium...i.e. it's cconstantly waiting for user
> input, so that's what you'll be waiting on mostly. FTP speed will be
> determined by (1) network speed, and (2) hard drive speed. The
> CPU is quite
> irrelevant in both cases.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mike
> Bikers don't *DO* taglines.
>