PowerBook 540c - Did a thing (OS 8.6)

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Even more radical would be to get some sort of early Mac OS X running on it. One of the DPs, perhaps?

And 40 MB of RAM isn't necessarily a problem; Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.1 officially required 128 MB, but could install and run on 64. I once ran it on my Rev C Tray Loader iMac with 32 MB of RAM. Yes, thirty two megabytes. It was slow as h*** and thrashed the hard drive so hard I was worried it might die, but it actually worked!

Granted, this was on a Mac with a 266 MHz G3 running on a 66 MHz bus (compared to 100 MHz on a 16 MHz bus(!) ).

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The RAM isn’t the main problem, it’s the architecture. Mac OS X needs Open Firmware, it’s fundamentally incompatible with anything Nubus/Slot Manager based.

 

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The RAM isn’t the main problem, it’s the architecture. Mac OS X needs Open Firmware, it’s fundamentally incompatible with anything Nubus/Slot Manager based.

Ah, I forgot about that.

Well, what other sort of exotic OS can a PPC-upgraded 540 run?

Does Rhapsody require OF?

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