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A comment on PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The First 32-Bit PowerPC CPU. Parent comment

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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