on 9/23/00 5:02 PM, someone claiming to be carpman at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Take back the comendation, I only have a 68k mac. I cannot run OSX,
> ever. And the problem is, that on the duo series, ppc or 68k no one can.
> Everything below a G3 need not apply. You probably should at least know
> this about BSD. It can run happily on a 68k. Why does OSX require a G3
> if it uses the same core? I am first and foremost a systems programmer.
> What Apple has done makes me want to puke. B-E-T-A as you put it, is a
> near stable release, meaning that only minor changes are expected before
> a full release. Removing OS9 and putting in some other form of
> compatibility would be a MASSIVE undertaking. We can deduce that OSX-GM
> will have the same reqs as the beta. I would point all of this out to
> apple, if I could run OSX, but since I run Linux on an Intel x86 as my
> primary machine, and my Duo PB 280c is not enough to run OSX, I dont
> believe that I had a right to make reports to Apple about it. I simply
> wanted to point out to the list why I believe that OSX has major
> problems.
I'd like to clarify something. Darwin is the piece of Mac OS X that runs on
G3/G4s only. Also, according to apple, it will run on 604s. You may be able
to use an unsupported install on those. It would be impossible to run Darwin
on a 68K machine without a lot of work. Darwin is the core, not BSD. B-E-T-A
means that the OS could still be changed. GM will run in 64MB of RAM. Apple
said that the final would run on all shipping machines, which means it will
run in 64MB of RAM. It will be optimized to require less RAM. Don't expect 5
year old laptops to run new OSes. In MS's case, don't expect 1 year old
laptops to run new OSes.
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