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May 11th, 2004, 01:51 PM
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| More interesting would be, whether parts of the project's work could be used to enable _direct_ installation of Mac OS X on IBM's PPC boards. This would eventually lead to a) Mac clones and b) Apple reacting. Right now, those 'other' PPC based computers can only run Mac OS X via MOL (Mac on Linux) or similar, software based solutions, where Mac OS X can't directly access the hardware.
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May 11th, 2004, 02:14 PM
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| Now THAT would be interesting. I don't see any major obstacles in doing that -- of course, it would require reverse-engineering the ROM on the Macintosh motherboards to see what instructions needed to be present in the clone's ROM to trick it into thinking it was a Macintosh. Perhaps clones do exist! Reverse-engineering a ROM isn't rocket science -- it's not for the novice, but for an expert (which there are plenty of) it would only take time. Of course, this is very illegal, so the opportunity to purchase an unauthorized clone is nil... but perhaps people have already done this? It seems like a logical step to take since the Apple platform is so closed -- people naturally and typically want to put great effort into obtaining knowledge that they aren't supposed to have. I would bet that there are quite a few programmers and hackers out there that have looked into this and are even working towards this.
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May 11th, 2004, 02:59 PM
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| That ROM part is not an issue - or PearPC would have it solved already! NewWorld Macs don't have those big ROMs any more that old-day Macs had. It's basically only the Open Firmware that's needed.
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May 11th, 2004, 04:07 PM
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| Did they copy the Apple firmware ROMs ? Microsoft does not include proprietary software in each PC, anybody has the right to build a PC that can be accepted by a Windows Installer. Apple includes proprietary information in each Mac it sells. Without this information, the installer will refuse to load. Therefore it is LEGALLY forbidden to make such a clone, even just in software.
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May 11th, 2004, 04:37 PM
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 PearPC - OS X on a PC. Anyone tried? Has anyone tried this on their pc? http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/  screenshots Looks interesting, if I had something non-Mac at the moment to try, I might ..  Supports: Windows 9x, Windows 2000/XP, andwill need a client OS to support it = Mandrake 9.1 for PPC, Darwin for PPC, OS X. |
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May 11th, 2004, 04:53 PM
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May 11th, 2004, 09:44 PM
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| Oh Gia... That other thread was only posted today, you must really be losing it  
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May 11th, 2004, 10:16 PM
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| Mac os x on a PC
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