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PowerPC OS Inception
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-09-05 17:15:33 I've been digging through some photos from a couple of years ago when I was playing with BeOS on a 9600/200MP. Don't ever let anyone tell you BeOS won't run on a G3 processor. It cares about the logic board more than the processor. It even correctly names the processor in the CPU Utilisation widget. Dual processor 200MHz 604e :
Posted by: Skate323k137 on 2022-09-05 19:38:01 Good stuff! I have also used BeOS with a 7500, with sonnet G3 CPUs including 500mhz/1MB
Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2022-09-05 19:45:24 Pulse correctly works with a G4 too.
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-09-06 02:13:59 Pulse correctly works with a G4 too. Yeah, I briefly tried a 350MHz 7400 or 7410 in it I think, but don't have a photo. I'd be curious if it is happy with a 7450 or similar. I guess the fastest PowerPC BeOS bix would be one with a 1.0GHz Sonnet or perhaps a 1.2GHz PowerLogix in a Zif to processor slot adapter?
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-09-06 02:15:45 Good stuff! I have also used BeOS with a 7500, with sonnet G3 CPUs including 500mhz/1MB Sadly I don't have one of the rare dual G4 upgrades... that would be an interesting BeOS rig!
Posted by: joshc on 2022-09-06 02:36:32 Can it be done the other way round, run BeOS on top of OS 8/9 ? And then run Sheepshaver inside there, for real weird inception vibes.
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-09-06 02:45:34 Can it be done the other way round, run BeOS on top of OS 8/9 ? And then run Sheepshaver inside there, for real weird inception vibes. I haven't tried, but given BeOS is extremely picky about the hardware it runs on, I'd be surprised if you could sadly.
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-09-06 02:47:42 Can it be done the other way round, run BeOS on top of OS 8/9 ? And then run Sheepshaver inside there, for real weird inception vibes. What about running MachTen inside SheepShaver?
Posted by: Byrd on 2022-09-06 03:41:41 Out of interest what version of Mac OS are you running under SheepShaver? Never had much luck with it on BeOS.
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-09-06 03:54:12 Out of interest what version of Mac OS are you running under SheepShaver? Never had much luck with it on BeOS. Oh, I'm not certain, it was some variant of 7.5 I think, either 7.5.3 or 7.5.5. Were you running PPC or x86 BeOS?
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