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Mac OS X Panther On A 25MHz Centris 650
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."
I mean, I understand that it's super cool geeky and all to do this crap, but do we really need a story every time someone manages to run a modern OS on an old piece of shit computer?
Why not just do an end of the year round-up of all them at the same time, rather than 20 stories spread out over the year?
I feel sorry for people who bitch about how this has no "practical" use. I can't help thinking they're the same ones who walk into art museums and make winning comments like "pfff, I could do THAT..."
You're comparing this to fine art????? Walk away from your computer RIGHT NOW and get a life. Start by talking a walk in the fresh air or talking face to face with another human being.
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Read the damned article you lazy motherfucker.
I wanted to see OSX powered by a 68k. That's all, it's no more complex than that
How hard was that?
LK
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