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Of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom
Of course you can run Doom on a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now . Now, let's go ahead and g...
Oddly, the headers for the MIT Shared Memory Extension were reportedly missing on 4.3 despite the X server being fully capable of it, and he ended up cribbing them from a modern copy of Xorg to get it to build. All of my code is on Github along with pre-built binaries and all development was done on stockholm, my original Apple Network Server 500 that I've owned continuously since 1998, with a 200MHz PowerPC 604e, 1MB of cache, 512MB of parity RAM and a single disk here running a clean install of 4.1.5. This machine is a good test because it also runs 4.1.5 (but IBM vanilla AIX this time) and its GT20-based LCD display supports exactly the same 8-bit colour visual at 1024x768, yet it's a 166MHz PowerPC 603e, slower and with weaker integer performance than the 200MHz 604e we were previously using, plus it only has half the L1 cache and just 256K of L2.
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