At 8:33 AM +0000 1/10/06, Mark Benson wrote:
On 10 Jan 2006, at 03:24, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
I'd bet the G3 upgrade needs at least 8.5 to work
without problems.
I've got 2 PCI Macs with G3 Slot cards that run 8.1 fine.
My 7100 will run 7.6 w/o complaints with the Sonnet card. It's
normally booted in 8.6 but I still have 8.1 and 7.6 on separate
partitions and they all play nice with the Sonnet card.
My PowerBook will still boot 8.1 with a G4/500 in it, and eons ago my
Mac SE would still boot systems as ancient as System 1.1 with an
Applied Engineering '030 card.
I'd imagine things would be different for, say, a IIci that had a
PowerPC card in it (I kinda doubt that System 6.0.8 and a PPC
accelerator would've been real happy with each other) but usually
it's the other hardware that makes a given Mac incompatible with an
older OS, since instruction sets most often get added to, not
subtracted from.
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