Jer writes:

>http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~magus/bench/benchres.html
>
>This won't tell you what's easiest but it will tell you what's
>fastest...I see at the bottom of your message you've got a Q650....that
>would certainly be easy _and_ fast....

Yes, eventually I'll probably use the Q650. It's fast, has lots of 
memory, and a huge hard drive. But right now its running NetPresenz and 
SIMS as my web and mail host.

For the short term, I just want to set up a learning machine. Once I feel 
less clueless, I'd like to put BSD on the Quadra as a web server.
  
>If memory serves me right an 8 meg LCs might come w/ (2) 4 meg simms,
>I'll have to check,  that could give you :24 megs in the IIcx;SE/30

That hadn't even occurred to me, but would provide me with 16MB for the 
IIcx, IIsi, or SE/30.

BTW, there seems to be a lot of talk about the FPU on this list. How much 
difference does it make?

>> I plan on putting BSD on an external drive.
>
>This is good and easy!  Once installed on the external HD you could plug
>it into any machine, and try to boot it w/ a generic kernel!!!!!!!!!!

That's the idea. It'd also make it easy to do some benchmarking of the 
various vintage Macs as BSD machines. (Ah, another article for my Low End 
Mac website!)

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