Bitcoin Mining on Mac Classic

[adespoton]

Good questions!

I'm not really sure....

I think it would probably be mainly for older Power Macs (I don't think 68k Macs could really handle it), and it would allow for newer software to be ported over relatively easily, to an extent. Let's say it's mainly intended for OldWorld Power Macs up to the Beige G3, but it can boot on certain NewWorld Power Macs too.

It would be somewhat like Mac OS X in principle, but implemented totally differently, and much lighter on resources (it could run well in 32 MB of RAM, for example, and be capable of running in as little as 16).

The UI would basically be that of Copland and Mac OS 8.x (Apple Platinum), but with implementations of things like @Crutch 's Exposé integrated to modernize it a bit.

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In my view, Haiku with AMS or MACE running in it would tick all the boxes. Assuming Haiku could be made to run on older PPC Macs as well as Intel and ARM systems.

 

[CC_333]

You mean like this?

Advanced Mac Substitute

Basically, yes! But itself running on an as-yet hypothetical OS with a Mac OS-like UI and all that other stuff I already mentioned.

In my view, Haiku with AMS or MACE running in it would tick all the boxes. Assuming Haiku could be made to run on older PPC Macs as well as Intel and ARM systems.

That would be interesting indeed.

As I'm typing this post, I realized that A/UX is conceptually very similar to what I'm describing (being able to run standard Mac OS applications within the Unix-based environment with a pretty Mac OS-like UI). Too bad the rumored PPC-ready A/UX 4 was never released, as that probably would've been it pretty much.

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