>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.
>
The problem with this is that i have read of an occation where its been
done (on a Mac IIsi) and OS 8.1 still wont boot itself. The person needs
to boot with System 7.6 and then do a restart from an external drive and
then 8.1 will work. This seems like it would be a pain to do every day.
>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.
>
I doubt it works but it might be worth a try if you have time.
-Jon
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