On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:39 PM, geraldcornish wrote: > Hi all, > > Current setup is Pismo 500MHz/1GB Ram/100GB HDD Tiger 10.4.11 & OS 9.2.2 > Intention is to upgrade to Dual G4/G5 but keeping Tiger/Classic. > > My better half needs to use Pagemaker in classic while using OSX > simultaneously. > > Pagemaker uses up all the spare cpu cycles and slows down all other programs, > and I assume this would still be the case with a faster Mac. > > My question is - if we move to a dual G4/G5 how does Tiger handle the two > cpus? > > Will it assign classic/pagemaker to one cpu only, leaving the other cpu to do > any OSX work needed? > > This would be ideal for us if one cpu is kept free of the Pagemaker loading. > > TIA > > Ged
G4 PM up to Dual 1.25 F/W 400 will boot both 9.2.2 and 10.4.11 where G5 PM will not boot OS9..2.2 but will run Classic along with Tiger. Ive done it with Pagemaker 7. John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacBook Pro i7 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
