Does anyone know how Jag put OS X on a SE/30? I remember years ago that he did and there was not much ram left for anything else. I'd like to try. Peace.
I remember a while back on one of these forums someone claimed they'd gotten PearPC compiled on a, what was it, Centris? Quadra? 68040 running Linux and had set it to work booting some version of OS X. I vaguely recall that the attempts repeatedly ended in failure... Aha, here's the thread, don't know if they ever revisited it after killing a hard drive trying. But, sure, in theory you could "run" OS X on an unmodified SE/30 using this technique, given a large enough hard drive and enough RAM to keep the virtual memory subsystem from thrashing completely into oblivion. But it might literally take years to get to the desktop. No kidding there, *years*.
It may have run on the same CPU but NeXT hardware other than that isn't particularly Mac-like so there's no way on earth you're installing an old version of NextStep on an SE/30. At the very least you'd need the full source code, which nobody has, and spend a few months writing kernel drivers for the totally different hardware.
The one remote possibility I could see for getting a NeXT/OS X-esque environment on an SE/30 would be to install Linux or NetBSD and run GNUstep on top of it. (GNUstep is source code compatible with OpenStep/Cocoa and allows cross-compiling software that doesn't require other OS X specific APIs.) The performance would be hilariously bad but still faster than emulation.
Ever been had ,oops,jags too Cifs? Jag,cybernetics courtesy is quip about netBSD,from the SE that built the new Windows under many other Linux distros practices,mint et al?
If you could use a RAM array interfaced to the SCSI bus instead of a real HD, that PearPC trick might work, but then you're talking about custom hardware.