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Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X
Rovaani writes "There is a video floating around of a Nokia N900 smartphone running the full desktop Mac OS X 10.3. From the author, Tomi Nikkanen: 'I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone ever to run a full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). As you can see from the heavily edited video, it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is.'"
Next step is to hook it up to a car battery and use liquid helium to cool the chip. Overclocked I'm sure he can get the boot up under an hour.
Two hours to boot Mac OS X? My Nokia N900 boots the Atari 800 OS in 2 seconds.
Come on, if your going to do worthless things why not go for the whole enchilada?
"TV, a medium as it is neither rare nor well done." Ernie Kovacs
Now if I could just get Windows Vista booting on my TI-82!
OsX native to the Arm architecture would probably be an order of magnitude or more faster Just wonder, only 12 minutes to "About this Mac"... sweet!
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It's not a computer unless you can use it in a car simile.
. . . now get *that* running on your Nokia N900 . . . I see your enchilada and raise you a chimichanga . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
It barely even crawls OSX. (Cool hack, though.)
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.
People used to say, "Windows 95 is Mac 84." The roles have now reversed.
So now "Windows 95 is Mac 84." says people?
That's deep man.
Always back up, never back down. ---- Think you're cool 'cos your uid is prime? Take mine, modulo the one digit integers
And not all that much has changed between NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X. Anyone who used NeXTSTEP back in the day knows how remarkably little has changed since Apple took it over.
O.o
If a complete lift-and-replace of the GUI/display subsystem, massive kernel updates, major userspace updates, major API revisions, multiple new APIs, a new GUI and a port to a new hardware platform means "little has changed", exactly what needs to be done to say "a lot has changed" ?