gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Have you no more modern/faster processor hardware you can use even
> temporarily to cross-build some mac68k packages as you need them?
> I mean, even one of those $300 PCs from Walmart would chew through
> this pretty quickly... and with a bit of effort you could do the
> entire build environment on a bootable CD.
> 
> Waiting for GCC on a mac68k, never mind having disks of a relevant
> speed and size just seems... painful to me, though the computer
> itself is absolutely still reasonable for other applications that
> need less I/O or processor most of the time.

My interest in NetBSD began primarily to have something svelte enough to 
fit on these machines and run decently.  My "big" machines (i.e. 175-300 
MHz) run Linux or other fat Unices.  I've had to trim back my hardware 
so that I don't have any spare machines for NetBSD (nor the space for 
them) even if I wanted to set one up.

Besides, it's fun to say that I've got natively-built m68k packages. 
Not that native vs cross building makes any difference, but it's still cool.

> Actually... what's the Application here? I can't imagine that using
> X can be all that... fun of a process on a mac68k, relative to
> fairly inexpensively-available more recent hardware.
> 
> I'm all for making good use of hardware, and mac68k systems are
> certainly only wrongly considered junk, but... I'm not sure doing
> anything GUI is their place.

The little Mystic is my demo piece, and X terminal.  Though not 
practical for doing lots of stuff, I like to show that I _can_, which is 
reason enough in itself.  :)

Tim

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