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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by apaprocki on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:22PM (#24741196)
As far as binaries go you can still target the COM instruction set with the compiler and the same binary will run on any 32/64 PPC up to the latest POWER chips.
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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by rbanffy on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:09PM (#24741506)
I was wondering if someone could come up with a POWER9-based accelerator board for PPC-based Macs.

Obviously niche, but most amusing. Imagine a 48-core 5 GHz MacPro G5.

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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by Aloha on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:19PM (#24741577)
it'd probably totally be.. possible - to get OS X to boot on a POWER9 system. There seems to be more interest in getting Classic OS to run on modern hardware though
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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by rbanffy on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:36PM (#24742394)
I'd totally want my Mac work environment running on a dual socket POWER9 workstation.
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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by mhd on Saturday October 10, 2020 @05:37PM (#24742045)
Mac System 9 running on modern hardware, not in an emulator?
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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by wolrah on Saturday October 10, 2020 @08:00PM (#24742832)
Now the web browser can crash the entire system an order of magnitude faster!

That said I love the idea from the perspective of a wonderful hack, but I truly hope no one actually has a use case where running classic Mac OS on modern hardware makes sense.

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