ssheven

A clever hacker has gone and ported a modern SSL library to System 7, plus SSH [1]. Runs on a 68030+ Mac. OpenTransport, not MacTCP. And I imagine key exchange takes a few minutes... but yeah, you can ssh into a contemporary machine over the open Internet using a Mac SE/30 under System 7. (You could also just run NetBSD on the thing and run an entirely modern stack, in theory. The SE/30 can take 128 MB of RAM. It's one of the oldest machines out there that can run a current operating system! Though I'm unsure whether Firefox would finish loading before the heat death of the universe.) [1] https://github.com/cy384/ssheven

Also: https://github.com/cy384/ssheven You connect to SDF.org and power boost that MAC to the extreme :D https://github.com/cy384/ssheven/releases/tag/0.8.9

The Microsoft's insistence on maintaining native backwards compatibility with software some of which is as old as me is so perplexing. I saw what the API of the classic Mac OS looked like[1] the other day, and it does resemble WinAPI very much. It's procedural, many functions take descriptors, many other functions take structs you allocate and fill in, there's a DIY event loop, and so on. It even has a windows.h (lol). Apple got rid of this in 2000. It then provided a VM-style "classic environment" backwards compatibility layer in OS X for ~5 years, and Carbon library for source-level compatibility for even longer. Apple did manage to pull this off. Why can't Microsoft do the same? Why can't they put a seamlessly integrated 95/XP/whatever VM into their system that would launch when you run a win32 application, and finally give themselves