From: Jeremy Wood (woodjd_at_whitman.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 22:39:05 PST
"Yesterday, I flipped off a guy who was driving an SUV. See, I'm doing my
part to save the world." - www.theonion.com
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Martin Joseph wrote:
>
> On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 10:33 AM, Bog Rat wrote:
> <snip>
> > I had that problem too, has anyone had any luck upgrading the contents
> > of the dock, to perhaps an internal CD drive, mine had a scsi external,
> > any chance of fitting it up to run os X?
>
> NO!
To clean up Martin's curt answer: Yeah, that's a big fat no. No way, no
how.
While there has been some success in fitting OS X into some of the older
powerbooks. Not that old, however. The oldest machines that have been made
to boot OSX are the 3400's.
The hacks that have been done to make this happen are possible because the
3400, 2400, etc are based on a PCI architecture that is similar too other,
more supported machines.
The 5300, 1400, and 2300 are NuBus based. Entirely new drivers and stuff
would have to be created to support them. It's my understanding that the
2300 is even more "backwards" with an even more antiquated architecture
than the 5300 and 1400. To retain compatibility with the original Duo
peripherals, it uses the same '030 style arch. and bus. Which is even more
ancient than the PPC grafted onto a '040 in the 5300 and 1400, which are
more closely related to the 540 and 520 series machines.
Right, so that's the long version of "NO!". The other part of "NO!" is
that the old Duo machines don't possibly have enough get up and go to
handle OS X, nor are their upgrades available.
I actually run OS X 10.2 server on a 9500 with a 220 mhz G3 card. OS X is
slow like metaphors I can't think of on old kit. 10.1 would run on a 603
or 604 processor, and ground along like yet another metaphor I can't think
of on the 9500's original 120mhz 604.
Old hardware, yay!
Jeremy
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