Heya. Does anyone happen to know the significant differences between the G3 and the G4 as far as they relate to this project?
Reason I ask is that while I know it'd be great if we had an infinite supply of ODW's, we don't. Polaris /has to/ run on plain OFW powerpc. There's no way around that, no matter how much we may wish it to be so. We simply cannot make forward progress without a cheap, plentiful development platform. However, PS3's and g4 powermacs are still on the expensive side. I can't afford one in either case. What I can afford though is an old newworld G3 machine ( bondi imac or similar ) , they can be had for under $50 these days. I've given up hope trying to get my 44p booting off the net, and I don't know where to begin coaxing GRUB2 on to the thing. I've successfully netbooted a powermac ( mac mini actually... ) before, so I know apple's OFW implementation works. I was thinking then of picking up some ancient apple kit & having a go at making it work properly. So, hence my question if anyone knows. The significant difference between a G3 and a G4 ( aside from altivec ) is? Cheers -John -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
