Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)

Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by asveikau on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:17PM (#21881448)

Circa 2003 I found an old Quadra [forget which model, but with an MMU -- still have it powered off in a closet] on eBay for less than $20, and installed A/UX.

I got some old Mac software (some games, and an old release of Netscape), and some GNU ports (gcc 2.8 ish I believe?). It was interesting what could have been - there is a simplicity in System 7 UI that OS X doesn't have. But after a while it became kind of boring, another dated Unix machine that can't run a lot of recent things.

The most dated thing I remember from the time was it didn't support DHCP.

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Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by brycesbeard on Thursday December 26, 2019 @12:08AM (#21882129)

Any chance you had a power meter hooked up? I find it fascinating how much less waste heat we generate per unit of computation.

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Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by basementcat on Thursday December 26, 2019 @01:20AM (#21882314)

Did you try BOOTP? It is a subset of DHCP and you might still be able to get an address lease.

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