Mac OS vintage (was: Re: Sun E450 server officially vintage)
Cameron Kaiser
spectre at floodgap.com
Wed Jan 3 20:01:36 CST 2007
> My first Mac was a PowerBook 520c, it shipped with 7.1 installed, and images
> of 7.5.x on the HD. With only 4MB RAM base, you didn't want to run 7.5,
> with 20MB RAM, it ran OK. IIRC, my PowerMac 8500/180 that I got a year
> later shipped with some version of 7.5 as well.
>
> Additionally, I can't even imagine running these OS's with that little RAM.
Actually, 7.1 will run fine in 2MB -- I ran a Plus that way.
4MB is better (my IIsi).
24MB is very, very nice ;) (my playbox IIci).
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