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You can't do it with this level of preciseness in the Mac family at least. Between OS X, probably as long as you're not on non-intel processors. Like other com
by shii 16y ago
You can't do it with this level of preciseness in the Mac family at least. Between OS X, probably as long as you're not on non-intel processors.
Like other commenter said, Windows/MS really goes all the way for backwards compatibility.
- jessedhillon 16y agoYou can take a G3 from Mac OS 7.1.2 (version which added PowerPC support) all the way to 10.4, which would take you from 1997 to 2005. I haven't done it, but I've read that getting 10.4 requires some finagling to achieve, so the last supported install you could do would be 10.3.9
- flomo 16y agoIIRC the minimum OS for a G3 was actually 8.something. (Apple generally doesn't/didn't support down-level OSes on their hardware.) Also the settings would have only been preserved in Classic, but that's to be expected I guess.
- tibbon 16y agoWonder if you could upgrade them, and then just rip out the hard drive and move it to another box. Wondering if 10.4 would be ok with one moment having a PPC and another moment having an intel processor.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoIf at OS X you take your previous computer and attach it in target disk mode or something (I'm not a Mac person) will it do anything with the old OS, perhaps use settings or allow apps to run under emulation or such. Such quirks are partly what would make such things interesting. Slackware goes back to 1993, is there an earlier Linux distro still in major use? (looks like there isn't - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gldt.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gldt.svg). It might be more interesting with Linux to follow a WM?