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#2 2007-11-17 7:41 am
- dvpierce
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Re: Powermac 9500 MP and OS X?
You'd be the first I'd heard of trying.
From the XPostFacto site on OWC.
Mac OS X 10.3 (and later) require a G3 or G4 CPU upgrade on models that did not originally come with a G3 or G4.
The 9500MP and 9600MP work, but only one processor is active.
So, that would be a deal killer, methinks.
Maybe some variety of Linux will give you multi-processor goodness?
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#3 2007-11-17 8:51 am
Re: Powermac 9500 MP and OS X?
I have original X 10.1 disks too. I wonder if those would do better for this, since I don't have a CPU upgrade? I haven't really gotten into Linux though.
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#4 2007-11-20 1:19 pm
- pkmgarf
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Re: Powermac 9500 MP and OS X?
It's too bad that only one processor works. I think X on a single 250mhz would be problematic....
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#6 2007-11-21 6:00 am
Re: Powermac 9500 MP and OS X?
dvpierce wrote:
Maybe some variety of Linux will give you multi-processor goodness?
BeOS!
pkmgarf wrote:
It's too bad that only one processor works. I think X on a single 250mhz would be problematic....
A 250 MHz 604e would comfortably hold its own against a 233 MHz G3. And plenty of people (have) run OS X on that.
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#7 2008-02-26 1:43 pm
Re: Powermac 9500 MP and OS X?
I'm not sure running on one processor would be that big of deal. I don't know about this specific upgrade card, but wasn't most stuff asymmetric multi-processing then?
Also, make sure you have plenty of RAM. -I'm sure that goes without saying, but I also recall something about the 9500's not recognizing both processors if virtual memory was being used.
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