[conspire] Box needed for open source demo

[Ross Bernheim]

On May 5, 2005, at 1:25 AM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> On Thu, 05 May 2005 01:34:09 -0700, Alex Escalante wrote:
>
>
>> ram and 6gb hd's just collecting dust at work. is there a small
>> version of linux with an apple emulator?
>>
>
> If you want to emulate Apple hardware on x86, you're talking Opteron
> power, and an OS install is still likely to take over 24 hours.  
> Perfectly
> doable though. PearPC is the emulator. There are also programs such as
> Basilisk that emulate even older Mac _software_ rather than hardware.
> There is also vMac, which hardware emulates a model from 1986  
> called the
> 512K Enhanced (not the Mac Plus, as it claims). Are you planning on
> running the theater lighting software on those things?

Daniel, he said that they were using Apple II's not Macs! Apple II's  
used a
6502 running at just over 1 MHz! The I/O and buss which does partial  
address
decoding makes it very easy to interface to external hardware. Couple  
with on-
board BASIC in ROM that easily allows direct access to the I/O and it  
makes it
easy to do control.

Ross



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