[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> has anyone had any success loading OS X on anything? 2400c, powerbook of any
> type? curious to know how it's done...got the os x disc from apple, but I
> can't seem to get it to load properly,
> any help would be appreciated
>
I can't help it anymore. I have to rant on OSX.
/usr/bin/rant &
This thing is officaly a "Bad Idea". It is the most insane concept in
computer science after Micro$oft Window$. For starters, lets look at
what OSX is in reality. It is simply A BSD Unix kernel and shell, with a
X frontend. Check out ( http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/ ). NetBSD is
a BSD Unix kernel with a (optional) X frontend. It, however, runs on a
68k. With at least 4-8mb of ram. From what I've heard, it sounds like os
9 is being run in the background to keep compatibility with MacOS
software (Which is also a very bad idea, the proper way to do that is by
traping the MacOS system calls, and executing them before they reach the
kernel, which would not eat up nearly as many cycles as running 2 oses).
The second problem is with the UI. Unix is a command line interface. It
will never be diffrent. No MacOS has ever had a command line. You cannot
run Unix without it's command line, it simply was not built for that,
but Apple is trying, and it won't work nearly as well as they expect. If
Apple wants to support Unix, then they should release the hardware docs
to the linux and BSD projects, but this is a step in the wrong
direction.
^C
[1]+ Terminated /usr/bin/rant
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