on 6/7/04 2:09 PM, Tim & Alethea Larson at thelarsons3@cox.net wrote:

> You want a Quadra, basically.  Fastest 68040 chips in Macs were 33MHz
> (630, 650, 800, 950 models) or 40MHz (840AV).  I've heard that the SCSI
> driver that NetBSD uses on the AV models is not as well developed
up to 1.6.2 it is still true...

> though, so you might have slower disk throughput.  (Anybody know if this
> is still true?)  Some people swear by the Quadra 605, as it is
> physically small, even though it has only a 25MHz LC chip.
yes. it runs well

I personally was attached to my 610, which is still a pizzabox. Nice, well
cooled, runs non stop forever and reaaonably fast. Disk was ok too. It has
onboard sonic ethernet, so you have good eth speed too

-R