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55 Operating Systems On A PowerBook
OttoMagick writes "I found an article called 'Many Systems on One Machine' over at Kernelthread.com that shows over 55 operating systems running on a 17inch Powerbook. The article includes screenshots and descriptions of each system, and also hacks and tips on getting the nasty ones installed. The author Amit Singh (the Hanoimania guy, covered earlier on Slashdot) explains his reasons for all this in a related FAAQ (frequently asked + anticipated questions) ... In all a very interesting read, specially the FAAQ, where he calls the setup "the iPod of operating systems". Now thats an Apple Power User! I wonder what Steve Jobs would say if he sees people doing such things to his machines!!"
...why couldn't the bastard just buy 55 laptops instead ?
"...each system, and also hacks and tips on getting the nasty ones installed. "
As soon as I saw "nasty ones" mentioned, I checked the list: Yes, Windows ME is on it.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Wonder where i could get a job like his?
The chair of my physics dept once said that he'd seen, on a visit to a local Air Force Base, a CPU emulator that could be configured to simulate any CPU on the market. He then said they had four of these monster emulators at the AFB.
I asked him why they didn't just buy one and have it emulate the other three.
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
and I bet Windows ME is still the worst!
So I guess we can now put that FUD in the trash bin, together with "beleaguered computer company"
That'll piss Darl off.
Any fool can talk, but it takes a wise man to listen.
Does it really matter?"
Isn't that kind of the whole point when you title your website "Many Systems on a PowerBook"? I found it strange that he would even ask that question, much less give it its own little header/section.
"You're a loony."
There are a lot of *NIX variants on that Powerbook. I shudder to think how much SCO thinks that guy owes them...
"He then said they had four of these monster emulators at the AFB."
They had to shut down this project, of course, after the Rodan emulator wiped out half the base.
The Mothra emulator was sold to Saddam Hussein in 1987, and its current whereabouts are unknown, but its presence in Saddam's arsenal, combined with his poor knowledge of English, might have inspired the "Mothra of All Battles" phrase used in 1991.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
the one running his web server seems to have crashed.
Damn it, and I thought my Tri-boot was cool.
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It should be "FAAAQ".
Frequently Asked, Anticipated & Answered Questions.
Among the systems that his laptop does not run:
SCO
SCO seems to be everybody's favorite company these days. (...)
Absolutely true! Just see how often SCO makes it to the frontpage of Slashdot...
He He He, Mule.
There should be a moderation category "Dumbest Comment EVER"
Favorite quote from website:
Even though Inferno 4th Edition includes Mac OS X as a host system, it has issues on Panther. It is simplest to run it within Linux within Virtual PC within Mac OS X.
Heh!
Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
And have 'Lemmings' running on every single one.
He's trying to play the Tower of Hanoi using PartitionMagic.
That's 'crap his pants and see a glorious business opportunity, releasing the I-Poop, the portable MP3 playing colostomy bag' you I-nsensitive clod!
55 operating systems, still one button on the mouse.
"55 os's on one power book. 55 on one 'book!"
"Shut one down, and cycle around...54 os's on one power book"
"54 os's on one power book, 54 on one 'book!"
"Shut one down, and cycle around, 53 os's on one power book"
"53 os's on one power book...."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...now guys, don't anyone tell him or everyone'll catch on, and then we'll have to do something productive...
Not Pokemon!
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
Insightful? How is it insightful to GUESS that it would be impossible to run x86 OS's on a PPC architecture?
Geez...
Easy, he'd encourage it. Apple is a hardware company. or at least they think they are.
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
14 Windows systems, whose interface is a bore,
11 DOS OSes, from the days of yore.
11 systems scattered across the sundry lands,
7 real-time systems, in mission-critical hands.
Three OSes for those who teach, and those who will to learn,
Three for the Big Blue Demon, from which he could not earn.
Three of the Small Red Demon, plus one for the Penguin Tux,
One for desktop publishers, whose software costs big bucks.
One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them,
One OS to emulate them all, and on the hard drive bind them.
In the land of G5, where the cycles fly...
dinner: it's what's for beer
So one single person with a penchant for doing laborious, time consuming geeky-for-the-sake-of-geeky stuff's opinion about which OS is most productivity enhancing means something to you?
LOL. Can I interest you in some water-spanning real estate in the New York City/Brooklyn area?
um... "Cool?"
Remember, this guy started Apple when he was a kid (comparatively) and, despite being the salesman, he hacked hardware as well.
No, if this guy REALLY wanted to impress me, he would have the 55 OS's running nested inside each other, in an emulator.
Of course it would probably take 10^236 years to printout "Hello, world!" in the innermost OS but speed isn't really the issue, is it?
I object to that article, and to the next reply.
This friend of yours. . .he hasn't, by chance, spent the last twenty years trying to copy a 17.6 MB file, has he?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I'd be impressed if all 55 were up to date...
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My favourite quote: "Because Windows NT is designed to be a secure system, there is NO backdoor into the system."
No he is already in the club for the check he got from Knuth.All two dollars and 56 cents
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over 55 operating systems running on a 17inch Powerbook
Wow...that's over 3 operating systems per inch!!!
we had to install 2,000 operating systems before we were given any breakfast, another 16,000 before dinner and a million more before we were allowed to go to sleep at night.
Every time we wanted to go to the toilet we had to write at least 18 new operating systems, from scratch, with new word processing and graphics apps capable of running on all of them.
All this on an abacus with most of the things missing!
Trust me, I would if I had ANY idea what OS would run on such a cute and cuddly carbon based life form.
Here is a screenshot (actually cut from the below-mentioned pdf).
JP