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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by grishka on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:30AM (#50390162)
> the feat of running macOS on non-Apple hardware, and has a history dating back to the late 1980s

Wait, so people were somehow running macOS on non-Apple PowerPC machines? I've always assumed that hackintosh is specifically about IBM PC compatibles.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by ChrisRR on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:32AM (#50390170)
Including non-PowerPC machines with PowerPC daughter cards
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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by jasomill on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:11AM (#50392482)
There were no PowerPC Macs in the '80s. Running Mac software on non-Apple 68k machines was a thing, though[1].

Apple itself also had a project, started in the late '80s, to port the Mac OS to x86[2].

Incidentally, PowerPC Mac OSes, especially pre-OS X, run quite well today on QEMU.

[1] https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n6/mac_pc_on_st.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project

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