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The 6100 does not use a conventional PCI bus.
by winocm 4y ago
The 6100 does not use a conventional PCI bus.
- jamesfmilne 4y agoIndeed these systems had NuBus, which was a holdover from the earlier 68k MacII and Quadra machines.
- nier 4y ago> The basic requirement for Mac OS X to ever work on a machine is that it have a PowerPC processor, a PCI bus, and Open Firmware. So the earliest PowerPC computers from Apple (e.g. the 6100, 7100, and 8100) are not likely to ever work with Mac OS X. Source: https://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto3.html https://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cf...
- kergonath 4y agoIIRC a big problem was the CPU. PowerMacs with 603s or 604s were "supported" by XPostFacto, but not the 601, which is why the 7200 could not boot OS X despite not using NuBus. The NuBus Macs also did not use OpenFirmware, contrary to all PCI (and AGP) PowerMacs.