Subj : processing power required..
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Aug 30 2026 09:43 am

Hello Maurice!

** On Monday 24.08.26 - 05:44, you wrote to me:

 MK> Primarily they are all lean, mean compiling machines, mostly gcc/g++.
 MK> Also they all can literally rock n' roll when needed without breaking
 MK> into a sweat.  :-)

I was just wondering what it is that it's rock n' rolling as most of the  
time.  I guess it's just busy compiling to create its own environment to  
compile the next version, which is used to compile the next, and the next?


 MK> How about you and yours?

Only my "recently acquired in 2022" Mac Pro from 2008 is the most loaded  
(Xeon 8-core CPU) machine I have.  It has two hdd's totalling about 800GB.   
8GB ram.

Its Safari is totally useless for accessing today's sites, but I found that  
Powerfox works great with my Leopard, OS X 10.5.

"Jan 7, 2026 PowerFox brings updated web standards like newer HTML, CSS,  
Javascript, webGL, SSL/TLS 1.3 support for modern security features, and  
more, allowing your Snow Leopard Mac to function on the modern web.

As long as the browser works, I really don't need to change the system any  
further, except to maybe bump up the ram to a cool 32GB max.

Dunno how I will settle using the machine for anything, except as network  
storage.

I have some the various upgrades to the maximum OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) ..but  
I see no point to go all the way.

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