13 Jun
2009
13 Jun
'09
6:40 a.m.
I think one of the reasons Apple didn't want users
to run that version on
G3s is because Apple started using the GPU for fancy GUI stuff and didn't
want anybody to run the OS on PCI or early AGP graphics cards that did not
support it.
Well, if that were true, it would have been a simple couple lines of code to
block starting up if certain graphics hardware (I presume you mean Quartz
Extreme et al) weren't present. Apple hasn't really enforced QX on PPC
hardware, and I guess at this point they never will.
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