6 Apr
2007
6 Apr
'07
2:47 a.m.
Did a copy of this x86 Mac OS ever leak out onto the
net?
Curt
To the best of my knowledge no. As far as I know this was never seeded to
developers.
OTOH, Rhapsody with the classic Mac OS interface was seeded. I forget if it
was DR2 or DR3 that first sported the Aqua interface, and the first
Developer release or two only ran on x86 boxes. The "Prelude to Rhapsody"
release first given out an the WWDC and then sent to developers was stock
OPENSTEP 4.2 and while intended to run on x86 could apparently also be
loaded on NeXT 68k systems as well as the correct HP PA-RISC or Sun Sparc
systems.
One of these days I'd really like to boot OPENSTEP on a Sparc 5. It should
just be a matter of finding the time. Which translates to finding an
actual reason to make the time. :^)
Zane
Incorrect, If you look at some of the less scrupulous segments of the
web you can find a copy of OSX that runs on x86
For example check out http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
As a warning if you are planning on actually obtaining a copy somehow,
it will be a DVD sized image (think about 4GB)
-Josh