On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 10:37 PM, Martin Joseph wrote:
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> On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 06:53 PM, James Elliott wrote:
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>> The stuff I've read about the MaxBoxx says that it used an Apple 9600
>> motherboard in order to insure total compatibility with future Mac OS
>> releases. Why can't all the CPUs be used?
>>
>> -James
> Apple doesn't support OSX on any mac older then the beige G3.
>
> The multiprocessor 9500/9600/Daystar/Maxxboxx is based on the older
> "Tsunami" PCI architecture.
>
> You can run OSX on it, with the addition of Ryan Rempel's incredible
> Xpostfacto, which adds a bunch of extensions to support the Old World
> hardware and Open Firmware.
>
> Unfortunately it does not support Multi-Processors... I've been
> bugging Ryan for months about this, since I have two dually's, but he's
> a busy man....
> Marty
>
I'd love to get ahold of a dual 604 machine someday. I want to build my
own version of the BeBox!
John
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