On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:25:02 -0500, William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca> wrote:

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>Granted, just installing stuff to see if it will run on a 68k machine can be
>fun for a while, but it does grow old.  I know that there are oodles of
>network applications for the 68k Macintosh, like routing and guarding, etc.
>What worthwhile applications are there for the 68k machines?

   I've run the irssi and bitchx chat clients -- just for the fun of it,
and for the OMG! reactions from the other participants when I tell them
about it. :-) Those clients work quite well, by the way.

   The intended use for my 68k NetBSD machines is chiefly to run them as
"terminal servers" when testing applications at work (industrial
automation). Many of those applications make a lot of noise, etc., and it's
good to have them in a separate room (or a separate building) and let the
NetBSD boxes route them to various X windows on my desktop computer.

   I'm back to 1.6.2, by the way, mainly because I get too many "sn0
receiver FIFO overrun" messages under 2.1. Such messages are virtually
non-existent under 1.6.2.