Mac OS X Panther On A 25MHz Centris 650

Posted by timothy on Monday October 25, 2004 @11:26AM 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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Re:LOL by 2starr · 2004-10-25 11:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

Forget Fink, you should try Virtual PC. Windows would scream on that baby. :-)

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One week? by chiller2 · 2004-10-25 11:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

That's almost as long as it'll take their webserver to return a page during the slashdotting :)

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Gotten any job offers from Microsoft? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 12:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

the boot screen has taken 1.5 hours to appear, and the ETA for full boot is almost exactly 1 week!
You've achieved what they've been aiming for for years!