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Mac OS X Panther On A 25MHz Centris 650

Posted by timothy on from the quaalude-vending-machine dept.

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."

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  1. And in other news, I sat and watched plaster dry by DarthBart · · Score: 5, Funny

    This one qualifies for the "Too Much Time on Their Hands Award".

  2. Yay! by jargoone · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  3. Boot Time One Week!? by SillySnake · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had a windows system like that once.. But it wasn't emulated :-/

  4. Re:Very simple question... by mekkab · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF else are you gonna do with a Centris? Play Marathon?! Or Spectre VR?

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  5. Re:LOL by Tod+Hsals+5000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    and i always thought that trying to load doom3 on my abacus made it freeze... it seems i need more patience!

  6. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    imagine a beowolf cluster of those...

  7. Ultimate? by SunPin · · Score: 5, Funny

    If "has done the ultimate" equates to "has smoked crack" then, sure, it's the ultimate.

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    Laws are for people with no friends.
  8. Simple answer ... by pavon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know, but I want to marry her.

  9. Journal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    OSX load journal: Day 6: Power outage.

  10. Re:Watch by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    i'd do her

    As opposed to your usual crusty tube sock ... yeah I'm sure she's flattered

  11. Re:That is a bullshit answer. by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I mean really, what the fuck is that supposed to mean? I don't go around killing people just because I can."

    Would you go around killing people if you couldn't?

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    "Derp de derp."