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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 don't think I want to know what happens when you try to install or update fink on that machine...
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
This one qualifies for the "Too Much Time on Their Hands Award".
the boot screen has taken 1.5 hours to appear, and the ETA for full boot is almost exactly 1 week!
Gee, sounds faster than my wife's ibook G3/900 with 128M of RAM! Maybe I should upgrade to this!
I had a windows system like that once.. But it wasn't emulated :-/
I sure hope the website isnt being hosted on it.
WTF else are you gonna do with a Centris? Play Marathon?! Or Spectre VR?
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
imagine a beowolf cluster of those...
That they are hosting the website on this machine, too!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
If "has done the ultimate" equates to "has smoked crack" then, sure, it's the ultimate.
Laws are for people with no friends.
That's more painful than watching James T. Kirk play a lawyer on TV.
I don't know, but I want to marry her.
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"I tried to RTFA, but the site is gone... I already see obligatory "The site must be hosted on the said Centris, lmao", etc. As of the time of writing, I didn't see any comment..."
Wait two weeks. The first letter should appear.
...it's still better than Windown XP.
Tom Geller
OSX load journal: Day 6: Power outage.
I mean really, what the fuck is that supposed to mean? I don't go around killing people just because I can. I go around killing people because it makes my dick hard.
Watch as danamania gets a whole lot of new slashdot friends just because she's a girl...
I know I added her to my friend list.
Ok off-topic but I thought it was funny.
If someone trips over the power cord, or the power goes out, does she have the patience to start over?
So the G3 Emulates at 50Khz with PearPC. Bet she wishes she could have used Cherry OS!
"It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it."
... and is hosting the webpage linked in the article... because the server is that slowww....
;-)
It would be funny if they install SETI@Home, and that weak machine finds ET's signal...
oh how the AMD kiddies will cry.
...but not intentionally. A friend of mine once called me over to his shop to check out his new IBM PC 286 clone and a clone-PostScript laser printer. You can tell this was a LONG time ago. I fired up Corel Draw and did a few odd things, like a PostScript pattern fill inside a clipping path. I sent it to print and nothing happened. It was 5PM on Friday, he said he never turns off his computers, so we just left it running and left for the weekend.
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.
w00t!
I pwned Durendal!
Taste my shock-stick flavored wrath beeyotch!
That's nothing.
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.)
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
...so does that mean it automatically gets an "uptime" of 150 hours? that is stability, baby!
I started to, but it'll take me 52.6 years to finish imagining it.
Nuh uh, it was James T. Kirk! Duh!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
I think his Centris has too much time on it's hands... (although probably not now)
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.
The real question is: Can it use a two button mouse?
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
that this guy goes homicidal if his power goes out on Sunday night.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Ok, thanks for repeating the standard slashdot "geek" mantra. Now go roll around in some dogshit. Why not? It's there!
And 25 years from now, my IIgs will have finally reached the Apple-logo boot screen.
Maybe by the time I'm ready to retire it will have finally rendered a single frame of the OS X logo.
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.
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
Just for the record: the Plus *was not* able to run it at full speed. I know, because I had one - and I always lost against those darn Mac II users who were simply faster... ;)
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.