[olug] FREE: 2x Macintosh Quadra 950
Eric Lusk
wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 16 19:54:33 UTC 2005
Like I say, I'll check my BeOS Bible to confirm what
hardware the retail versions supported. I know Be was
NOT one for backwards compatibility, so it's certainly
possible it won't run on hardware that old.
--- Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
> Sean Edwards wrote:
> > You obviously never went to a BeOS user group
> meeting
> > when they had 9 videos playing in 9 seperate
> windows,
> > and all doing +25 frames per second, on a machine
> > similar to those below.
>
> ???
>
> I was under the impression that BeOS ran on PPC and
> x86 hardware not 68k.
>
> In fact, Google brings me to these pages:
> http://www.boomweb.com/LetItBe/compat.html
>
http://www.computing.net/beos/wwwboard/forum/993.html
> http://www.osdata.com/holistic/hardware/hard.htm
>
http://www.osnews.com/phorum/read.php?f=8&i=5209&t=5209
>
> Are you sure you're not mistaking these machines for
> a PowerMac 9500,
> which *will* run BeOS?
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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