OS Suggestions - Mac Quadra 800

[Cameron Kaiser]

> With the Daystar 100Mhz PPC Upgrade his options might very well be 
> limited.  I believe such things of that era tended to require 3rd 
> party extensions.  Mac OS 8.x if it will run it, is a nice choice, I 
> ran 8.6 for several years on my G4/450, finally upgrading to get 
> iTunes.

8.1 should install just fine, and would be a good speed and functionality
compromise. 8.6 would be a little much. Make sure not to lose the
extension for enabling the PPC card!

> I'm guessing A/UX is *totally* out of the question, and that even 
> NetBSD or Linux wouldn't run either, but I might be wrong about the 
> last two.

A/UX, yes, no go. NetBSD currently does not support Power Mac/nubus, and I
don't think any of the Linux distros (even the nubus ones) support any of
the PowerPC expansion cards either. He'd actually have more support with the
native '040 (and that can -still- run 8.1).

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