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Re:How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? by nasretdinov on Saturday May 02, 2026 @07:24AM (#47985418)
Honestly macOS probably can go much lower than that if you turn off some stuff that's not strictly necessary for a VM. The first iPhones only had 128 MiB of RAM and they ran a trimmed down version of macOS Tiger I believe. It's just that RAM has been quite abundant so far, so there was no real reason to try to trim it down, but it's definitely possible, and probably not that hard either, we just need to start trying again :)
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Re:How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? by Therenas on Saturday May 02, 2026 @11:17AM (#47987168)
Well early iPhones did not have app multitasking, so that‘s quite the difference. Any app was killed when when closed.
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Re:How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? by selectodude on Saturday May 02, 2026 @12:27PM (#47987790)
Yes it did. You just couldn’t use it. I could send a text message while listening to music. Sometimes the music would crash due to OOM.
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Re:How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? by felixding on Saturday May 02, 2026 @11:58PM (#47993199)
Maybe I’m nitpicking but there is no such thing as “macOS Tiger”. It’s called Mac OS X at the time so it’s Mac OS X Tiger.
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