[TriLUG] yellow dog (old world)

Jason Faulkner jasonlf at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 08:09:55 EST 2005


Old world --> new world changover point is this:

If it has a floppy, it's oldworld.
If not, it's newworld.

--Jay

On 11/10/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/9/05, burnett at pobox.com <burnett at pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Cristobal Palmer wrote:
>
> > > So my real question is: does anybody on the list have an "old world"
> > > mac? If so, have you tried putting Linux on it? What'd you put on it?
> > > I've got one under the futon that needs to be resurrected.
> >
> > Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server 1.1 installed fine on my "Wall Street"
> > model Powerbook, G3 / 300MHz, summer 1999, as I recall.
>
> The kids these days! <G>
>
> So I guess that an "old world" mac is one which is running a G3.
>
> What do you call the old 680x0 macs?
>
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