Mac OS 8 on a G4 QuickSilver 2002 — #12

Post #12 by Bunsen

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Tue, 2 Sep 2008 - 05:20
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/mac-os-8-on-a-g4-quicksilver-2002.14687/

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http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1365772&forum_id=479959

RE: MoM Abandoned?By: Ronald (paulusdebos) - 2006-05-04 21:47

At first I was very exited about MOM, but as soon as Apple made it clear that future Macs would not be build around PPC processors, it was clear to me that there is no future for MOM anymore, because MOM (like Mac-On-Linux from which it is derived) will work on PPC processors. That is what MOM made special, it will run natively on PPC.

http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FAQ

Is Mac-On-Linux an emulator?
No, it's really a virtual machine with some custom drivers to improve performance, similar to vmware.

What's the performance like?

It runs at almost native speed for CPU/Altivec with similar disk performance. The video driver [has] no hardware acceleration and / is about 50% slower than native /

Can I run MOL on OSX?

Not at this time, but most of the MOM patches have been integrated back into the source. An OSX port is likely for the future.

And as the project has been abandoned, "the future" means when someone else decides to take it on.