Re: Mac Classic and PHP...

You could run YellowDog Linux on the PowerMac 8500. http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ydl_home.shtml You could upgrade the CPU and RAM cheap as well. -John

On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 05:16 PM, Chuck "PUP" Payne wrote:

Thanks, I am pushing them to go to OS X, but they are PPC 8500, which can only go to Mac OS 8.6, maybe 9. They don't want to buy a new computer, I personal have a G4 and Snowflake iBook and am running 10.1.3 with Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I told the I search and ask, which I have so thanks guys.

Recommend them a cheap Linux box. You could probably set yourself up with a web server for less than a hundred bucks, just need a Pentium 1 with a crummy handmedown monitor and an ethernet card. Mandrake is supposed to be incredibly easy to use and graphically configurable, and if these people really want to get going with PHP and web serving then they're probably willing to learn a little Linux... or they could get someone else (yourself?) to administrate the box for them. Or even put the 68k linux distro (I forget its name) on their 8500.

By the Eric Price, I could see PHP on Atari ST(they have the same chips as the Mac Classic, 68K) and I know in England and Germany are still used by many and are even on the internet, but not an 800. I still to this day write code in Atari Basic on my 800. I miss my Atari ST 1040, but I gave that up for my first mac, Power Book 145B, but I am wandering. ;)

I must have had about 300 games for my old Atari 800. Gallahad and the Holy Grail, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece, Jungle Hunt, Pitfall, Haunted House, man... I wish I still had them. Then again, it might be like those movies that you remember so fondly as a kid but then you see again fifteen years later and you're like "what was I thinking?" The memory ends up being better than the reality. My Atari is best left in my attic... :) ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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