Mac OS X Panther On A 25MHz Centris 650 499
Currawong writes "danamania, well known for making the most of 68k Macs, has done the ultimate, and installed Mac OS X Panther on an old Centris with 68MB RAM, a 25MHz 68040 and 4GB drive - an early 90's machine with about the same power as a NeXT cube. To achieve this, she's had to run it under PearPC on Debian, resulting in a severe performance hit, as generic emulation runs "about 500 times slower" according to the developers. On this approximately 0.05MHz G3 speed emulator, the boot screen has taken 1.5 hours to appear, and the ETA for full boot is almost exactly 1 week! Regular updates are being posted as each milestone in the boot process is reached."
LOL (Score:5, Funny)
And in other news, I sat and watched plaster dry (Score:5, Funny)
Yay! (Score:5, Funny)
Gee, sounds faster than my wife's ibook G3/900 with 128M of RAM! Maybe I should upgrade to this!
Boot Time One Week!? (Score:5, Funny)
Errr... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Very simple question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:LOL (Score:5, Funny)
wow (Score:5, Funny)
IT SEEMS (Score:3, Funny)
Ultimate? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:LOL (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Errr... (Score:5, Funny)
Considering it won't boot for another week, this truly must be a story from the Mysterious Future!
Pain (Score:1, Funny)
Simple answer ... (Score:5, Funny)
In case it gets ./'d (Score:1, Funny)
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And the ETA for the TFA?-Molasses in December. (Score:1, Funny)
Wait two weeks. The first letter should appear.
But you know... (Score:1, Funny)
Journal (Score:5, Funny)
That is a bullshit answer. (Score:4, Funny)
Watch (Score:5, Funny)
I know I added her to my friend list.
Ok off-topic but I thought it was funny.
So in a week from now... (Score:4, Funny)
So the G3 Emulates at 50Khz with PearPC. Bet she wishes she could have used Cherry OS [cherryos.com]!
I think it booted already... (Score:3, Funny)
It would be funny if they install SETI@Home, and that weak machine finds ET's signal...
oh how the AMD kiddies will cry.
I've done similarly stupid things... (Score:5, Funny)
On monday morning, I got an excited phone call from my friend, the page had just popped out of the printer! That means the print job ran on the laser printer's processor for about 2.5 days.
Re:Very simple question... (Score:1, Funny)
I pwned Durendal!
Taste my shock-stick flavored wrath beeyotch!
Re:Yay! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Boot Time One Week!? (Score:5, Funny)
Linux on an Abacus... (Score:5, Funny)
When my port of Linux on an Abacus is complete, I shall hold the true crown of new stuff on old shit geekiness! (Though, I wonder if people are going to say I cheated because I had to overclock it a little, and I added a few more beads to increase bandwidth.)
Re:Watch (Score:2, Funny)
boot time of 1 week?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Watch (Score:2, Funny)
just turned 19 too!!
Re:wow (Score:5, Funny)
I started to, but it'll take me 52.6 years to finish imagining it.
Re:Very simple question... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Watch (Score:5, Funny)
As opposed to your usual crusty tube sock
Re:LOL (Score:3, Funny)
I bet a screen capture movie would have to be done by Marty Stoufer from Wild Kingdom, like when they do a time-lapse film of a plant growing, or ants devouring roadkill.
Re:That is a bullshit answer. (Score:5, Funny)
Would you go around killing people if you couldn't?
Re:LOL (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Very simple question... (Score:3, Funny)
I think we have to see this as a pointless indulgence, we know it should work, but there is no real point.
I just hope he realises that he's denying some fish a proper home.
Re:Very simple question... (Score:4, Funny)
I bet (Score:2, Funny)
LK
Re:IT SEEMS (Score:5, Funny)
Really, the reason it was posted to /. is because they think it'll take a week to boot. If it booted in an hour, we wouldn't be nearly as amused :)
Hell, my Apollo 3000 with 8 MB of ram took about 30 minutes from power on until it was booted up enough for me to start an xterm. All thanks to the memory-grubbing power of HP VUE on top of DomainOS -- no emulation there!
Re:Very simple question... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That is a bullshit answer. (Score:3, Funny)
Well, at least you're not killing puppies so you can have an orgasm. There's already enough game consoles on the market as it is.
Re:An Excellent Demonstration of Church-Turing... (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe by the time I'm ready to retire it will have finally rendered a single frame of the OS X logo.
I don't want to start a holy war here, (Score:5, Funny)
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Textedit is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various OS X machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a OS X machine that has run faster than its Contiki counterpart, despite the thousands of lines of code stolen from Windows Longhorn. My Tandy 102 with 32k of ram and MS BASIC runs faster than this 25 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that OS X is a superior OS.
OS X addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use OS X over other faster, cheaper, more stable OSes.
Don't mince words... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Very simple question... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:its not running ON the centris (Score:3, Funny)
What kind of hardware is it? It's a Centris. Is there any other hardware involved? No.
What is the software that's running? Oh my gosh, it's OS X. Is it a mockup of OS X? No. Is it a program that pretends to be OS X? No. It's an actual copy of OS X, and it's running.
So OS X is running. What is it running on? Is it running on some mythical G5 processor in the ether that magically instantiates itself when it senses OS X code on other hardware? Why, no, it's running on the Centris.
See OS X. See OS X run. Run, OS X, run.