classic Mac coder here -- some experiments might show.. that software development is not bad for this 25 year old system.. the user experience is calm, cool and collected IMHO. But anyone with an interest in graphics will find that even with later "faster" models of Mac, the JPEG and PNG decompression will be amazingly slow compared to modern times. That is not to say that plenty of interesting and modern software will not be useable - it is.. rather the sheer math and bit-movement involved in quick JPEG decompression might come as a shock to phone users of today. Overall, very supportive of "OS archeology" here.
Also modern cryptography. I remember reading somewhere that some old computers are so slow with it that the server times out before the client has a chance to complete the key exchange algorithm.
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classic Mac coder here -- some experiments might show.. that software development is not bad for this 25 year old system.. the user experience is calm, cool and collected IMHO. But anyone with an interest in graphics will find that even with later "faster" models of Mac, the JPEG and PNG decompression will be amazingly slow compared to modern times. That is not to say that plenty of interesting and modern software will not be useable - it is.. rather the sheer math and bit-movement involved in quick JPEG decompression might come as a shock to phone users of today. Overall, very supportive of "OS archeology" here.
Also modern cryptography. I remember reading somewhere that some old computers are so slow with it that the server times out before the client has a chance to complete the key exchange algorithm.
M68k may be slow, but a g3 ppc will be fast enough.