Recent content by JeffSzuhay

Word and Excel already run on the Mac. That's not the point here. I want to be able to run _other_ stuff on my OS X hardware. Stuff that does not have or has cancelled a Mac version... o MATLAB o our own software o other scientific software Until the Mac market share goes somewhere...

Mach was designed to host other OSes just like the Classic environment. In fact, the only reason BSD is in the core OS is for speed. It was the first OS hosted by Mach. Why not Windows? Why not BEOs or OS/2? Why not PlayStation, for that matter? So, we'll have Classic and BSD running...

Both the Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card and the IBM 466 CPU card are "issues" at this point for DP4. But that is a 5 month old piece of very volatile work. I don't know if they've been solved with Public Beta or they will be addressed when 1.0 ships. Only time will tell. Apple has a LOT on its...

oh, man, you really had me going there. I'm not in love with Windows (in fact I hate it) but there's an awful lot of software running with it out there -- some of it is worthwhile -- but Word and Excel are not in that set. 8)

How did you get yours? On what machine are your running it? I will install it as soon as I get it on my Pismo500 and Beige G3/300. 8-)

I can't be certain but I think the issue is running your classic apps (those not yet "carbonized" on OS X). In system 9.04 (which is much more stable than even 8.6 BTW) I think there are more improvements so that the classic environment will run flawless on OS X. If you are going to get...

128 MB of RAM is recommended so that you don't beat up your hard drive swapping memory pages in an out all the time. More RAM is even better. Ever see a Windows machine do this? It's caled "thrashing" when the OS spends most of its time swapping memory pages to/from the hard drive. This is...

I am running DP4 on a Beige G3/300 desktop. These are pretty much the same motherboards so you should have no problem But since I don't have the Beta yet, I can't say for sure. A couple of recommendations: 1) get more RAM. 96 MB should be enough but in paged, Virtual memory systems...