hardware requirement

sloopy malibu mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
24 Jul 2003 04:13:26 -0400


I sent Magnetic Systems (sole US supplier of Pegasos mainboards) an
email a couple days ago, and as of yet tp recieve a reply... as i would
be interested in this myself...


sloopy.


On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 11:22, Henry Umansky 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