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MacOS on a Pentium?
I have a P3 1 Ghz w/128Meg RAM Intel board and would like to get MacOS installed on it. I'd prefer a hardware solution (no room for a real Mac), so if a PCI card exists, please point me to it. Otherwise, what are my Linux/Windows options for Macintosh "emulation" for all OS 8/9 applications? Thanks. Scott |
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Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a P3 1 Ghz w/128Meg RAM Intel board and would like to get MacOS installed on it. I'd prefer a hardware solution (no room for a real Mac), so if a PCI card exists, please point me to it. Otherwise, what are my Linux/Windows options for Macintosh "emulation" for all OS 8/9 applications? Thanks. Scott Interesting request but, in the end, still better off to get a real Mac. And space limitations? Seen the iMacs and their low, profile design? Nor would using emulation, if possible, be all that successful due to the added overhead of running the emulator window. As for the Mac apps, which ones? There are no Windows versions of these? |
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Scott Ehrlich wrote:
I have a P3 1 Ghz w/128Meg RAM Intel board and would like to get MacOS installed on it. Aside from Darwin (the OSS part of OS X), I think you have no chance inhell of running Mac OS on a x86 PC. Apart from some old crust 68K emulatos, and they're only on interest for historical reasons. Like, if you want to play "The Colony". If you want to experience with OS X/Linux PPC, go find a cheap 2nd hand iMac. Not too expensive. -- - Peter Perls¿ - web: http://u238.dk "If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves." -- Thomas Sowell (1992) |
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GHalleck writes:
Interesting request but, in the end, still better off to get a real Mac. And space limitations? Seen the iMacs and their low, profile Or one of the laptops. A 12" iBook is quite small and quite. Though the price premium of getting a laptop may be questionable. design? Nor would using emulation, if possible, be all that successful due to the added overhead of running the emulator window. As for the Mac apps, which ones? There are no Windows versions of these? Well, you can emulate a PC on the Mac with VirtualPC. Though it doesn't (yet?) run on the newest systems with the "G5" processor. -- David Magda dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca, http://www.magda.ca/ Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI |
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"David Magda" wrote in message ... GHalleck writes: Well, you can emulate a PC on the Mac with VirtualPC. Though it doesn't (yet?) run on the newest systems with the "G5" processor. As I understand it the main obsticle to emmulating a modern MacOS on non-mac hardware is Apple requireing a Mac BIOS to start the OS. There actually is a company, emmulators inc that sold an ISA card on which you could sit a Mac BIOS ROM chip and with the help of their speacial software get a modern MacOS going on a Windows system. I just checked and they have up to OS 8 running well. I thought about getting that system going on my system once, but since I don't have any real reason to do this I have yet to buy their product. Carlo -- David Magda dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca, http://www.magda.ca/ Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI |
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"Scott Ehrlich" wrote in message news:3y2yb.347584$HS4.2932821@attbi_s01... I have a P3 1 Ghz w/128Meg RAM Intel board and would like to get MacOS installed on it. I'd prefer a hardware solution (no room for a real Mac), so if a PCI card exists, please point me to it. Otherwise, what are my Linux/Windows options for Macintosh "emulation" for all OS 8/9 applications? Thanks. Scott What's the best way to accelerate a Mac? At -9.8 m/s^2. HTH |
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