This is not entirely true. OS 8.1 can be installed on a 68030 machine, but Apple
does not officially support it. While I have not actually done it, I have read
many success stories about it. The idea is that you trick the installer into
believing your computer is a 68040 or PPC. There are several applications for
this circulating around the web. One in particular is called "Wish I Were ...".
In essence the installer looks to your machines Gestalt ID stored in ROM to
determine if it is eligible and I suppose to install only software needed by a
specific machine. These applications temporarily change the Gestalt ID for your
computer to an eligible computer for installation and viola, it installs.
However, unless you want OS consistency between all of your computers (there are
things about OS8 that I can't live without anymore and frustrate me terribly
when they are not there on OS 7.6.1), I can only imagine that OS8 will run more
slowly and take up more memory on the resource starved 270c, even if it works
flawlessly.
Willi Miller wrote:
> Thanks for saving me a lot of headaches, Jon.
>
> > Sorry.. the 270c can't run OS versions after 7.6.1 because of its 68030
> > processor. The 280, 280c, and 2300c are the only Duo machines that can run
> > versions of OS 8. OS 8.1 requires a 68040 processor or better and OS 8.5
> > is PPC only.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
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