[TriLUG] why run open source OS on oddball old hardware?

John Franklin franklin at elfie.org
Fri Jun 21 12:14:40 EDT 2002


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:16:31PM -0400, Mike Broome wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:16:02AM -0700, Kim Green wrote:
> > Yep, mac x86 as in 'that bloody old'.
> 
> Sorry to belabor the somewhat off-topic point, but I'm not clear on what
> you're saying here.  Were there EVER Macintosh computers that were build
> using the Intel 80x86 architecture?  To my knowledge, Macs started with
> the Motorola 68000 line of processors.

Yup.  The 128k Macintosh had an 8MHz 68000.  There were a handful of
machines in the early '90s that had a PPC chip for a main processor, but
a "PC Compatibility Card" (read: an x86 on an expansion board) to run
DOS apps (and maybe Windows 3.x).

jf
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John Franklin
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