I've no doubt that the onboard ethernet works fine, I'm just thinking that a
little more network speed, via a 100Mb NIC, would make the 7200 a little
more viable as an X term.  I have 32MB of RAM in the 7200 right now, but I
could easily double or quadruple that amount to 64 or 128MB respectively.
Maxing out the VRAM should give me some good color at decent resolutions,
and a scant one or two gigabyte hard drive should be more than sufficient
for a decent X install.


> From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:05:50 -0500
> To: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
> Cc: NetBSD macppc <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: 7200 Netbsd / Linux
> 
> The onboard MACE (mc) chip should work fine with >= 3.0 beta, current
> and possibly 2.1
> 
> On Nov 15, 2005, at 1:59 PM, William Duke wrote:
> 
>> That's too bad.   I was thinking that a 7200/90 would make an
>> excellent X
>> terminal once a cheap PC 100Mb ethernet card was added.
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
>>> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:10:56 -0500
>>> To: NetBSD macppc <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
>>> Subject: Re: 7200 Netbsd / Linux
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The last time I tried, ofwboot.xcf choked during loading. This may be
>>> fixed in current or it may have been that it only had 16MB of RAM; I
>>> tossed my 7200 a few months ago though.
>>> 
>>> On Nov 15, 2005, at 5:03 AM, William Duke wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm wondering if anybody has made any progress on adding 601
>>>> support to the
>>>> PPC port of NetBSD?
>>>> 
>>>> Reason I ask is simple, I want to install NetBSD on my
>>>> PM7200/90.   I
>>>> installed Debian Linux on the 7200 last night, and was immediately
>>>> reminded
>>>> of why I like NetBSD so much better.
>>>> 
>>>> Anyway, anybody know if there's been any progress on the 601
>>>> front?   Or, is
>>>> anybody even working on bringing 601 support to NetBSD?   I
>>>> searched Google
>>>> a couple of nights ago and found that there had been a couple of
>>>> people
>>>> working on adding 601 support in the past, but I can't find any
>>>> recent info.
>>>> 
>>>> Man, I'd really prefer to not have to use Linux.  But...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> !DSPAM:437a301e235429771613023!
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