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."
Wow... (Score:3, Informative)
Still as good an excuse as ever. :)
Re:Yay! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Cheating? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Very simple question... (Score:5, Informative)
For those who haven't bothered to mouse-over that foot icon attached to the story, it's indicates that this story has been attached to a category known as "It's Funny. Laugh". That's the reason why this story made Slashdot.
Why this was done in the first place? Dunno...
And on the other end of the mac spectrum... (Score:5, Informative)
Check out the announcment [vt.edu].
I wonder how many Centrises that equates to...
Installing the Hard Drive was worst part (Score:2, Informative)
And they kept that damn chasis around until the 7100's...
Truly, an amazing feat to deal with that obnoxious piece of design.
Oh, and the sharpened metal edges inside the case are murder on the knuckles.
Amen, brother! Preach it! (Score:1, Informative)
Luckily, someone at Apple finally woke up and realized how terrible their cases were, and the very next generation of Power Macs (the 72/73/75/76 and 8600) were the complete opposite, a total joy to work with.
Re:Very simple question... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Not totally. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Cheating? (Score:3, Informative)
They were only able to do this because PowerPC was so much faster than the old m68k. Had the speeds been comparable, it wouldn't have worked. But then, had the speeds been comparable, it wouldn't have been necessary, either.
Re:Try it backwards - old OS on new machine (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Very simple question... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Cheating? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Cheating? (Score:2, Informative)
As far as I know, the Motorola 68K code was (and still is) emulated entirely in software. Maybe you're referring to the handful of POWER instructions implemented in hardware on the PowerPC 601, as a way to ease transition of compilers and code from the POWER line?
Aleph One (Score:4, Informative)
cheers. :)
Re:IT SEEMS (Score:1, Informative)