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On 08/09/2003 at 11:22 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> 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.
Oh, it'd install natively. Simon's just worried about the speed.
Given how much he hates Mac OS 9 I should probably force him to try
it, though.
Of course he only has a 6G HD too. That'd probably hurt.
>> 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.
Yes. Well, if Copland hadn't been specced with a 'must run 100% of
software ever written for the Mac ever' insanity, or if Mac OS X had
been forced to have something better than the fucking awful Classic
environment hack ("hey, let's make a fucking *box* for apps to run in
rather than supporting them natively, like we did when we changed the
entire fucking architecture in 1994!") then Copland could be duking
it out with Son of BeOS and some OpenStep abortion in a much happier
OS environment. But no.
>You can probably install BeOS and run OS 8.1 under Sheepshaver. I did
>that on my 604e/180.
BeOS never supported G3s. Apple allegedly never gave them the
hardware info they needed. Odd, because most of the G3 era machines
were basically CHRP compliant.
>There's not going to be any end to the Classic Mac OS Suck until you do.
One man's suck is another man's sustenance. I'll keep Mac OSes 8.1,
8.6 and 9.1 on my 6500 until the day it dies.
Oh dear. More discussion, not enough hate, for certain bigwigs around
here anyway. I was hating Windows quite well this afternoon but I
couldn't be bothered making it an email. Ho hum.
--
:: paul
:: historic light cone
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