oldworld macs [Was: WARTY review]

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 17:34 -0500, volvoguy wrote:

> Wouldn't my Apple Powermac 6100 be considered an oldworld Mac? The
> "Command + C" thing allows me to boot from the CD drive, as it does on
> my slightly newer G3 iMac.

The 6100 is certainly an oldworld Mac. These machines can boot off CD,
but to do so requires the CD to contain large amounts of code - and at
the moment, all of that code is copyright Apple and not available under
a free license. 

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org