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> I aquired it when a company I was working for went bust. It's an old G3 > powerbook. A Lombard I think. It's fairly slow. It has problems running > QT movies and won't run MacOS X. Even with XPostFacto? XPostFacto is one of those programs that so much doesn't suck that I'm embarassed to mention it here. I've run Mac OS X on a 7600 with a 604e/180 using XPostFacto, so surely your G3 can handle it. People keep telling me how classic Mac OS didn't suck all that bad. I don't understand what they're smoking. Now the fastest thing I've played with OS 9 on is a G3/700, but after all that's only something like six or eight times as fast as my own laptop which has no problems with FreeBSD, Windows 2000, and BeOS... so unless there's something in the G4 that magically extracts all the suck I have to conclude they're on something pretty heavy. Apple seems to love installing suck at the OS level. I've got a NeXTstation Mono next to the 7200/120 I'm currently running classic Mac OS on, and despite having a 6x faster CPU and 3.5 times as much RAM (and that 60% faster) NeXTstep kicks OS 9's butt. [insert flame about Quartz and the effect it has on OS X performance here, you've seen it before... OS X is so much faster than OS 9 everywhere else that it's a damn shame they didn't have a Quartz Lite for their existing users: they'd probably have a double-digit market-share by now if they had] > I know that Apple did have a project to try and fix this (Copland?), and > eventually went with the beast known as Mac OS X, but still. My fucking > ST had pre-emptive multitasking back in 1990 or so. Under what, Linux? Some multifinder-style hack? My fucking ST didn't have preemptive multitasking, that's why I dumped it and got my fucking Amiga, which had preemptive multitasking in 1986. Real native supported preemptive multitasking. Not a hack. I'm sure you can install Linux on your Lombard. You can probably install BeOS and run OS 8.1 under Sheepshaver. I did that on my 604e/180. Or run Mac OS X under Linux on your Lombard using XPostFacto. There's not going to be any end to the Classic Mac OS Suck until you do.
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