hardware requirement

Philippe van Calsteren mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Tue, 29 Jul 2003 03:12:00 +0000


Hello Henry

Hehehe indeed, but thats not what Pegasos all is about,
Pegasos got MorphOS, the fastest booting OS of the world,
and there are limited G4 cards already around, but in a few
month's the pegasos 2 arrives, i would wait for that :) 

Felix,
Pegasos1 G3/600Mhz - MorphOS - DebianLinux - Mol ;)

On 22/07/2003, you wrote:

> Never heard of Pegasos. I checked out the webpage and it seems like I can
> just replace my current Intel CPU and motherboard in an ATX case with a
> Pegasos motherboard(ooops sorry, logicboard, I come from an x86
> background) and the 600Mhz G3 processor, and then I basically have an
> Apple computer (minus the ROM bull$4!+) without purchasing an Apple
> computer?? If so, how much does the MB and CPU cost in American dollars?
> 
> -Henry
> 
> --On Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:15 AM +0200 Karosa Alabaster 
> <alabaster@freemail.hu> wrote:r
> 
>> 
>> Sorry didn't quite pay attention to your post there :) I don't know
>> about
>> Powermacintosh 9500, but you know that you don't need Apple hardware to
>> run MOL don't you? Well as I see the PowerMac 9500 has a maximum 200mhz
>> processor, which is not quite enough for OS-X (because it was awfully
>> slow on my 333mhz IMac, with 300mbyte ram) IMHO get your hands on a
>> Pegasos (600mhz)..
>> --
>> Viktor alias Karosa Alabaster
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mike
>> To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:31 AM
>> Subject: hardware requirement
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I want to try some testing on OS X. I don't have a lot of money so I
>> need
>> to know what is the minimum requirement to run OS X with linuxppc and
>> MOL? I see that linuxppc run on a powerpc 604 (like Apple Power
>> Macintosh
>> 9500) but can it run OS X?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> P.S. I'm a x86 guy so I'm realy new to apple.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> Henry Umansky
> University of Pittsburgh
> Computing Services and Systems Development
> hmust2 [at] pitt [dot] edu
> (412) 624 -4357
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