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OS Emulation Extravaganza, OS X On Down

Posted by timothy on from the top-this-if-you-have-the-ram dept.

HomeBrewR writes: "Behold the power of MacOS X... Windows XP? Who cares! You guys arent going to believe what I was able to do in one bored day at work. http://www.mystaticip.com/homebrew shows my effort. I took OS X 10.1, installed fink with rootless Xfree86 with IceWM running BasiliskII [running MacOS 7.6]. OS X is also running ircle and VPC test drive running Windows XP. Simply amazing. The speed on this iBook 466SE of all the apps left much to be desired. This was a feasibility test. The speed of either one of the emulators running by themselves was decent if you turned off all the eye candy in Windows XP. I'm REALLY interested in getting BasiliskII up and running to be able to play all those games that OS 8 broke...stuff like Ancient Art of War and Vette. Check it out and have fun duplicating the effort HomeBrewR" The question I'm sure you're asking now is Why stop there?

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  1. Slashdotted by affenmann · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he is running his web-server under Linux in a VMWARE emulation in his emulated XP...

  2. Help! I can't get any work done by MrNovember · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will someone please help me? I am trying to install Linux in VMWare on Windows running in VMWare on Linux runnin in VMWare on Windows running...

    I just can't get anything done -- when do I stop? Someone please reset me.

  3. Shame, really. by FFFish · · Score: 3, Funny

    He could have completed the circle by running a MacOS emu... and iterated again. :)

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    1. Re:Shame, really. by FFFish · · Score: 3, Funny

      That would make an interesting infinite loop test, now wouldn't it... ;-)

      [wish I'd thought to do what AC did. damn!]

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  4. Emulate my brain! by Bongo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well hey, I beowulfed some neuronal organisms to form a neural cord, on top of which I then booted a reptilian brain stem. Then we emulated a limbic system, and added a running neocortex. Lastly, we mounted a full complex neocortex image!
    Now it can eat, kill, fu*k, feel happy and sad, do basic math and wonder about the meaning of life.
    Next we're trying to see if we've got enough spare cycles to initialise some basic psychic/saintly procedures...
    Mind you, performance is terrible. Aggressive funcions are very quick, but it seems permanently stuck in a loop in some lower subroutine concerning sex, while taking forever to compute simple empathy matrices.
    We're seriously considering a complete cold reboot, but then it did once turn water into wine. Maybe we should just leave it running, what do you think?

  5. Re:Island in a lake in an island in a lake - Yes, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Goto:

    http://linas.org/linux/i370.html

    Take a gander at:

    http://penguinvm.princeton.edu/hercules/index.ht ml
    shows OS/360 MFT running on the Hercules System/370 emulator on Linux/390 running as a guest machine in VM/ESA

    Satisfied?