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Dan Knight - 2004.09.07

Apple introduced the original iMac in May 1998, and it was firstavailable for sale on August 15, 1998. Some stores held midnight salesto take advantage of the pent-up demand.

Six years is a long time in the computer industry, and the questionof the day is whether a machine that felt pretty speedy running Mac OS8.1 can perform comfortably using Mac OS X.

iMac Basics

The old G3 iMacs had a 15' CRT display, relatively slow hard drives,and had a tray-loading CD-ROM mechanism. The tray-loading iMac wasnever shipped with a DVD or CD-RW drive, let alone a Combo drive.However, there are third-party CD-RW drivesavailable for the tray-loaders for as little as US$135.

The hard drive is a standard IDE mechanism, and you can installdrives up to 120 GB in size. A fast drive with a large buffer is alwaysnice, but keep in mind that throughput is limited to 16.7 Mbps.

The early iMacs used USB as their only expansion port and were notdesigned for processor upgrades. There are several third-party CPUupgrades available, and Sonnet's HARMONi models even as a FireWireport.

UPDATE: The Sonnet HARMONi card was incompatible withearly versions of Mac OS X 10.4. The FireWire port would tie up 100% ofCPU resources. This problem was fixed in version 10.4.7 (if notearlier). If you have a HARMONi card that's had this issue, be awarethat updating to 10.4.7 or newer should fix it.

There were four different tray-loading iMacs. All tray-loadingmodels shipped with just 32 MB of RAM and include a 24x CD-ROM driveand a v.90 modem. Here's a quick overview:

  • Revision A:Bondi, 233 MHz G3, 4 GB 4400 rpm hard drive standard. Supports 192 MBRAM, possibly more. 2 MB video RAM, expandable to 6 MB. ATIRage IIc video chipset. Mezzanineslot. First iMac with IrDA support.Requires Mac OS 8.1 or later.
  • Revision B:Bondi, 233 MHz G3, 4 GB 4400 rpm hard drive standard. Supports 192 MBRAM, possibly more. 6 MB video RAM. ATI Rage Pro video chipset.Mezzanine slot. Last iMac with IrDA support. Requires Mac OS 8.5 orlater (8.6 or later recommended).
  • Revision C:Five colors, 266 MHz G3, 6 GB 4400 rpm hard drive standard. Supports384 MB RAM, possibly more. 6 MB video RAM. ATI Rage Pro Turbovideo chipset. No Mezzanine slot. Requires Mac OS 8.5 or later (8.6 orlater recommended).
  • Revision D:Five colors, 333 MHz G3, 6 GB 4400 rpm hard drive standard. Supports384 MB RAM, possibly more. 6 MB video RAM. ATI Rage Pro Turbovideo chipset. No Mezzanine slot. Requires Mac OS 8.5 or later (8.6 orlater recommended).

iMac Drawbacks

These old, tray-loading iMacs can run Mac OS X. We have a pair ofRev. D models at home with 10.3. They're no speed demons, but they'refunctional. And they point out some of the issues you'll deal withusing OS X on a tray-loading iMac.

The first issue is memory expansion.Although you can run OS X with as little as 128 MB of RAM, youwon't be happy doing so. OS X will use your Mac's hard drive tocreate virtual memory when it runs out of RAM, and that's severalorders of magnitude slower than memory chips. Overlusthood legends. early acces - december 5, 2019. mac os.

One of our iMac 333s has 320 MB total RAM (a 64 MB module in theshort slot, 256 MB in the long one) and runs OS X prettycomfortably. The other one won't see more than 128 MB in the long sloteven if we plug in a 256 MB module. So that iMac has only 192 MB, andit's noticeably slower running OS X because it has to depend onvirtual memory so often.

The second big tray-loading iMac problem is shared with the WallStreet PowerBooks andbeige G3 Power Macs -any drive over 8 GB must be partitioned, the first partition mustbe smaller than 8 GB, and these models will only boot fromOS X if it's installed on the first partition.

Our iMac with 320 MB of RAM has an older, slower hard drive. The onewith 192 MB RAM has a high speed 20 GB* drive split into three equalpartitions of about 6 GiB apiece - install OS X, add severalapplications, and 6-8 GiB becomes restrictive in a real hurry.

* GiB is used to distinguish a binary or 'digital' gigabyte (2^30 or1,073,741,824 bytes) from the decimal giga- prefix that indicates1,000,000,000 (10^9). I use the term here because in my experienceOS X won't boot from a partition larger than 8 GB ontray-loading iMacs, beige G3s, and WallStreets - yet most software,including Apple's disk utilities, reports binary GB (GiB). Thus,creating an 8 GB partition using most tools results in an8 GiB partition, which is too big to use.

I dislike the GiB label, because in computer terms GB has almostalways referred to binary gigabytes. The great exception has been harddrives, which are marked as, say, 80 GB when they are actually 80decimal GB and format to around 74 GiB. This has lead tolawsuits against drive manufacturers, and some people suggest using GiBfor digital gigabytes as one way of clarifying the difference betweentwo types of gigs - or megs or kilos or teras. Better a littleeducation than a new term, IMHO, but it does simplify the discussion inthis article. We will not normally use KiB, MiB, GiB, or TiB at Low EndMac. dk

On the other hand, the faster hard drive does offer faster dataaccess, virtual memory is much faster than with the older, slower drivein the other iMac, and that gives each of our iMacs roughly equaloverall performance in OS X.

Processor Upgrades

If you've already got the iMac, already have plenty of RAM, andalready have a decently large, fast hard drive, you might be able tojustify $250-369 for a processor upgrade.Maybe.

With all of the other limitations of the tray-loading iMac, don'tbuy one with the intention of adding a processor upgrade. If you haveone and choose that route, consider one unique feature of the Sonnetofferings - they add a FireWire port along with a 500 or 600 MHz CPU.Unless you do a lot of graphics or video work, the higher cost of a G4probably isn't justified.

OS X Suggestions

It's possible to pick up any of the tray-loading iMacs for underUS$200 (plus shipping) if youshop around, but the newer slot-loading iMacs start at about US$30more (350 MHz slot vs. 333 MHz tray), don't have the 8 GB issue oftray loaders, and support up a 1 GB of RAM. If you're buying aused iMac to run OS X, I'd suggest you skip right past thetray-loaders and choose a slot-loading model.

If you already have a tray-loading iMac and want to run OS X onit, step one is to maximize RAM. Many iMacs support 256 MB memorymodules in both slots, but not all do, and there's no way to know inadvance whether yours will or not. Some people have 512 MB in theirtray-loading iMacs. Get there if you can, settle for 288-384 MB as asecond choice, and live with 160-192 MB only if you absolutelymust.

Next find a fast, moderate capacity hard drive. The IDEspecification supported by G3 iMacs won't work see the whole drive ifit's larger than 128 GB (about 120 GiB), so don't spend the money foranything 160 GiB or larger. Speed matters. Although today's drives willbe faster than the iMac's data bus, that means you'll be getting allthe hard drive performance your iMac is capable of.

My first choice would be a new 7200 rpm hard drive with an 8 MBbuffer. Second, a 2 MB buffer. Third, a 5400 rpm drive. Capacity?80 GB drives are pretty much a commodity these days, often on sale ataround US$80 (sometimes with a rebate). Smaller drives may be availablefor a bit less, but the difference is usually inconsequential.

Avoid used hard drives. https://pos-free.mystrikingly.com/blog/money-simulator-alpha-3-mac-os. Pulls, drives taken out of a new computer soa faster and/or higher capacity drive can be installed are often gooddeals - when you can find them.

And don't forget that the first partition must be no morethan 8 GB in size. That's 8,000,000,000 bytes, not 8 GiB(8,589,934,592 bytes). Drive Setup in the Classic Mac OS and DiskUtility in OS X work in GiB, so choose 7.4 GiB as your firstpartition size to keep it within the 8 GB limit.

Upgrading a tray-loading iMac so you can use OS X won't be cheap.You'll probably spend $300 for RAM, a hard drive, and a copy ofOS X - and that's part of the reason I suggest buying aslot-loader instead of a tray-loader for the small difference inprice.

Still, you can run OS X on the early iMacs. Just don't expect earthshattering performance. Even with plenty of RAM and a fast hard drive,the slower video chips, system bus, and CPU speeds mean performancewill range from tolerable to acceptable.

To get the most of out limited resources, run as few apps at once aspossible to avoid depending on virtual memory.

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Revised 2004.09.08 to correct and clarify use of GB vs. GiB.

Reviesed 2004.09.09 to include Rev. B as IrDA model.

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This document shows how to create and download project files for use with the Mac tools from the command line.

Before following these instructions, you should have already downloaded and installed the CLion software (if you haven't, go back and do so).

Section 1) Testing the Mac and Clang

In this section you will create and run a trivial C++ project/program (including editing it, and seeing how syntax errors are reported).

First, we will perform a one-time only setup.

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  1. Start a Terminal by clickich the (Mac Terminal icon) on the Dock.

    Perform the following actions in your come directory (mine is Richards-MacBook-Air: ~richardepattis).

    1. Use any editor (vi is automatically available on the Mac; other editors can be downloaded) to update your ~/.bash_profile file to contain the following line at the end (or put it after the other PATH settings in that file; e.g., copy/paste it):
    2. Terminate the Terminal and start a new Terminal (which executes the ~/.bash_project file automatically).
    3. Type echo $PATH and ensure the path you added appears.

    Now we will create directories for use in ICS-46, and create a trivialtest project to ensure the required operations work correctly.

    1. Make an empty directory for all ICS-46 Projects (ics46projects) using the mkdir command.
    2. Connect to the ics46projects directory using the cd command.
    3. Make an empty directory for the Trivial Test Project (trivialtest) using the mkdir command.
    4. Connect to the trivialtest project directory using the cd command.
    5. Use any editor to create a main.cpp file that contains the following code (e.g., copy/paste it):
    6. Create a CMakeLists.txt file that contains the following code (e.g., copy/paste it):
    7. List the contents of the ics46project/trivialtest directory storing these two files, by using the ls command.
    8. Create the make files needed for this project, by using the cmake . command (remember, you will do this just the first time you use a project).
    9. List the contents of the ics46project/trivialtest directory storing the new files it creates (and the new CMakeFiles directory), by using the ls command.
    10. Build the trivialtest file needed to execute this program, by using the make command (you will do this each time that you modify a .cpp file in a project).
    11. List the contents of the ics46project/trivialtest directory storing the new file it creates, by using the ls command.
    12. Run the trivialtest executable file, by using the ./trivialtest command.

    The following ~/ics46projects/trivialtest Terminal window shows all these actions (D through O).

  2. Use the finder to navigate to the Macintosh HD/users/yourname/ics46projects/trivialtest directory.

    The following Finder should appear on your screen.

    You can use any combination of Mac OS and Terminal command lines to manipulate the files in this directory: whichever is simplest.

    It would also be useful to make an alias to this ics46projects folder and place it conveniently on the desktop, so you can easliy reach the projects you are working on.

  3. Edit, rebuild, and rerun the main.cpp program,
    • Use an editor to change the cout to print 'Goodbye, World!'.
    • Show the main.cpp program file, by using the more command.
    • Rebuild the trivialtest file using the same make command. There is no reason to use the cmake command here: it must be used only if we change the CMakeLists.txt file.
    • Rerun the edited trivialtest file, by using the ./trivialtest command.

    The following ~/ics46projects/trivialtest Terminal window shows all these actions.

  4. Create a syntax error (remove the ; at the end of the cout line), and then follow the rebuilding/rerunning steps above The following ~/ics46projects/trivialtest Terminal window shows all these actions.

    The failed results of attempting to rebuild the program appear after the make command. In this case, the Clang compiler accurately indicates the source of the error. I have lengthened the window so as not cause lines to wrap.

We will now continue by learning how to download a project and run it. During the quarter, you will be asked to do this for all programming assignments and many quizzes.

Section 2) Testing Downloadable Projects with the Course Libraries

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In this section you will download the course libraries and then download/build/run a project that contains various programs that use these libraries.

  1. If you have not already done so, make an alias to the folder Macintosh HD/users/yourname/ics46projects named named ics46projects and place it on your desktop.
  2. Download and unzip the file template; Copy its three directories (courselib, googletestlib, and test_all_data_types) into the directory that ics46projects aliases; it should already contain the trivialtest directory, created by the operations above.

    Generally, whenever you download projects, you will unzip them and then copy their directories into the directory that ics46projects shortcuts.

    The following ~/ics46projects Terminal window lists these four directories.

  3. Connect to the test_all_data_types directory, by using the cd command. Hint: type only cd te and then press the tab key and Terminal should complete the name of this directory; generally using tab for directory/file name completion can drastically reduce your typing in Terminal.

    List the contents of the ics46project/test_all_data_types directory, by using the ls command. Notice that this project folder contiains various .cpp files and a CMakeLists.txt file

    The following ~/ics46projects/test_all_data_types Terminal window shows all these actions.

  4. Edit the driver.cpp file by uncommenting lines 30-35, so they appear as follows
  5. Build and run the main.cpp program,
    • Create the make files needed for this project, by using the cmake . command (recall you will do this just the first time you use a project).
    • Build the test_all_data_types file needed to execute this program, by using the make command (you will do this each time that you modify a .cpp file in a project).
    • Run the test_all_data_types executable file, by using the ./test_all_data_types command (remember to use command-completion to reduce your typing: but since many file names start with test_ you will have to type test_d (a unique prefix for the exe file) before pressing tab.

    The following ~/ics46projects/test_all_data_types Terminal window shows all these actions.

    Experiment with this driver by entering commands (and their arguments, when prompted) to better understand the set data type. You can enter the q command to terminate the driver, or you can type command-c to terminate the driver.

    I suggest that you try terminating the driver with a q command; then, rerun the program and terminate it with command-c.

  6. Using the ics46projects alias (you created in step 1), naviagate to the test_all_data_types project folder.

    The following window should appear on your screen.

  7. Double-click the test_all_data_types file to run this program in a Terminal window. The following Terminal window should appear on your screen.

    You can use all commands except the lf command, which is explained below. Alluvium mac os. Then terminate the Terminal window.

  8. Find the input files directory in the test_all_data_types folder and copy all of its .txt data files up one level in the directory (the one that contains the test_all_data_types file).

    Then, run the program from a Terminal window (connnected to the test_all_data_types directory) issue the lf command (load from file); when prompted for the file name, just press the enter key to choose the default (loadset.txt).

    The following ~/ics46projects/test_all_data_types Terminal window shows all these actions.

    Note that because the directory name input files contains a space, it appears in double quotes ('input files') in this and most Terminal commands.

    IMPORTANT: If a program reads data files, the root directory for the specifying the files is the directory in which the executable file appears. It is simplest to copy all the data files into this directory. An alternative would be to leave the files in the input files directory, and enter their names like input files/loadset.txt (note no quotes are needed here: this is not a Terminal command).

    When you double-click an executable file to run it (as you did in Step 7) it does not run the program in the expected directory; so a program run this way cannot correctly read files in that directory!

  9. A typical project folder may have more than one .cpp file with a main function (as test_all_data_types has). Only one of these .cpp files can have its main function uncommented, otherwise the build will fail. When working on project, it is typical to
    1. Comment-out code in one .cpp file.
    2. Uncomment code in another .cpp file.
    3. Rebuild/Rerun the newly uncommented .cpp file.

    In the test_all_data_types project folder, the driver.cpp file has many main functions: we uncommented one (in step 4) to allow us to run the Set driver. Software para archivos pdf. If more than one main function is uncommented, attempting to build the code will result in the compiler specifying a redefinition of 'main' error.

    The test_all_data_types project folder also contains many .cpp files (their names all start with test) that each contain one main function (each is a Googletest for one data type). If more than one file contains a main function, attempting to build the code will result in the linker specifying a multiple definition of 'main' error.

    To switch this project from running the Set driver to the Set Googletest

    1. Edit the driver.cpp file and comment-out lines 30-35.
    2. Edit the test_set.cpp file and uncomment all its lines.
      Most program editors have a special command that allows commenting on selected lines to be toggeled.

    Rebuild/Rerun the newly uncommented .cpp file.

    The following ~/ics46projects/test_all_data_types Terminal window shows all these actions.

  10. IMPORTANT:When downloading all other project folders, Mac users must remove the following two lines from their CMakeLists.txt files.

    These two lines are necessary on PCs to find the Clang C and C++ compilers, but they are not necessary on Macs. I want to supply just one download, and it is easier for Mac users to remove these two lines than for PC users to add them.

    For this document, I provided a link to Mac-compatible CMakeLists.txt files, so this operation was unneeded.

We are now at the end of this handout. You will not need to repeat the first two sections during the course, but you will frequently download project folders and use them as demonstrated in section 2.





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