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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. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    T T T T, what begins with T, ten tired turtles in a tuttle tuttle tree

    first?

  2. Mu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why not?

    (if I was cooler I would post this with user ID 0 or something, but I'm not that cool, so anonymous will have to do)

  3. OMG OMG!! by dustinbarbour · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG OMG!! Amazing! She is so 1337! If I could onl come up with something as cool and UTTERLY USELESS! Why waste my time posting on Slashdot when I could install a Kenworth engine in my Subaru Brat!

    --
    What is your penile percentile?
  4. Re:And in other news, I sat and watched plaster dr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The American way of life is vastly overrated; vote for Bush.

    And get the American way of death?