[wplug] Apple LC

Mark Dalrymple wplug at badgertronics.com
Wed Sep 5 07:49:13 EDT 2001


>> I have two very old macs (one LC and one Quadra 605), and I'm more than
>> willing to bring them to the installfest if anyone wants to mess around to

> I don't quite remember, but do they have MMUs? (68040 and up, IIRC).  If
> not, you couldn't run a modern OS like Linux on them.

Yep.  68030's and above have MMUs, which is processor in the LC and
Q605.  The only "heavy duty" mac with a 68020 was the original Mac II
back in 1988 or so, and you could get a plug-in MMU if you wanted to
run AU/X.  (it had 6 slots, so you could plug 6 monitors into that bad
boy.  it was sweet)

++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com  http://badgertronics.com
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