[wplug] I can get a Mac Quadra 605

[Andrew Fisk]

oops! -- I guess it was a long time ago -- 

Found this though -- really an amazing assortment of products for a very discontinued hardware platform.

http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html#UnixOnMac

 
Thanks

Andy
Spitfire Computer Services
Suite 19
2301 Duss Ave.
Ambridge, PA 15003
Phone (412) 749-0162
andy at spitcomp.com
www.spitcomp.com






On Apr 28, 2010, at Wednesday, April 28, 201012:29 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:10:16AM -0400, Andrew Fisk wrote:
>> 
>> I think I have a copy of Yellow Dog that would run on a 605 (it's
>> running on a couple of 8300s). BTW if you haven't fired it up for a
>> while, you might want to grab a new battery for the motherboard --
>> Batteries Plus are about 1/2 the price of Radio Shack. 
> 
> The 8300 is a PowerPC (604 I believe) while the Quadra 605 runs a
> MC68040 (or MC68LC040) processor -- you might remember when Apple made
> the big switch from Motorola 68000 CPUs to PowerPC.
> 
> It's a different chip and I don't think Yellow Dog has m68k images.
> You might be able to use Debian's m68k port:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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