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As far as binaries go you can still target the COM instruction set with the compiler and the same binary will run on any 32/64 PPC up to the latest POWER chips.
by apaprocki 6y ago
As far as binaries go you can still target the COM instruction set with the compiler and the same binary will run on any 32/64 PPC up to the latest POWER chips.
- rbanffy 6y agoI was wondering if someone could come up with a POWER9-based accelerator board for PPC-based Macs. Obviously niche, but most amusing. Imagine a 48-core 5 GHz MacPro G5.
- Aloha 6y agoit'd probably totally be.. possible - to get OS X to boot on a POWER9 system. There seems to be more interest in getting Classic OS to run on modern hardware though
- mhd 6y agoMac System 9 running on modern hardware, not in an emulator?
- wolrah 6y agoNow the web browser can crash the entire system an order of magnitude faster! That said I love the idea from the perspective of a wonderful hack, but I truly hope no one actually has a use case where running classic Mac OS on modern hardware makes sense.
- rbanffy 6y agoI'd totally want my Mac work environment running on a dual socket POWER9 workstation.