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by mistersquid 80 days ago
Old guy, here.

This ranking is fun and the as-of-now results mostly track.

1. Original iPhone

2. M1 Chip

3. Original iPod

4. Original Macintosh

5. Mac OS X

Though I’d put them in a different order.
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kemotep 80 days ago
Whatever model Classic Mac that supported the Apple ][e expansion card, Apple DOS expansion card, and Apple Unix install (getting you System 7? 8?, DOS, original Apple, and a commercial Unix) has got to be up there at least for the novelty for me.
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rjrjrjrj 80 days ago
Pretty sure there wasn’t one single model that did all this. The IIe card was for the LC PDS, but the DOS card was Nubus.

A/UX didn’t run on the original LC (68020, no MMU) but it may have worked on later LC series machines.

Edit. LC 630 DOS Compatible wasn’t Nubus, but it was a different PDS type than the original LC

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kemotep 79 days ago
I thought there was a Mac Performa or Quadra (like 2 or 3 very specific models only) that supported both Apple DOS and ][e cards.

And I get that the Apple DOS and Apple U/X performance on this machine might not be very good. Early 90’s computers and needing to be wrangled to even support normal, supported operations and configurations wasn’t uncommon.

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rjrjrjrj 79 days ago
I don't think so.

Apple never made a x86 DOS card for the LC PDS. Maybe a third party like OrangePC did, but I can't find a definitive confirmation online.

The only Apple II card was the Apple IIe card (LC PDS). All the machines with a LC PDS had only a single slot, so even if there was a DOS card you wouldn't have been able to use it and the IIe card simultaneously.

According to this thread, A/UX never supported any LC model due to significant hardware differences from the supported IIs and Quadras: https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/is-there-a-known-understood-te...

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somat 80 days ago
I have a slightly stupid take on tier lists I put together recently. A perfect chance to try it out.

https://compare.outband.net

It started as a shower thought on how to rank arbitrary items and ended as a janky web app written by a backend luddite who refuses to use frameworks. So here it is, a better tier list... Or not, it sort of sucks in practice.

For fun, Here is my order.

https://compare.outband.net/compare/app/compare.html?pop=app...

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