Ars Technica is reporting that certain 64bit Mac models won't be able to run Mountain Lion. The problem is the graphic card drivers; these are still 32bit, and Apple is unwilling to update them to 64bit. A 64bit kernel can't load 32bit drivers, so that's that. Apple has a list of supported models on their Mountain Lion upgrade page, so you can easily check if your computer is capable of running Mountain Lion.
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It's my only 68000 Mac. It now has a 500MB internal SCSI hard drive, 4MB RAM and triple boots System 6 from ROM, system 7.0 and 7.5.3 from Hard Drive. You can boot to System 6 at any point by cold restarting and holding down X and O (and possibly some of the modifiers, I forget) and it really does boot stupidly fast. I have no idea what the point of the ROM OS is, other than it being cool and requiring no working media drive to boot.
EDIT: another fun nugget of info, I installed 7.0 from Floppy, but 7.5.3 was from the CD image that Apple hosts. I downloaded it, mounted it on my 9500 and then installed on the classic over a local talk network... seriously!! Just a serial cable between two machines. Mind blowing.
I did have a 68000 Mac 2 at one point**, but I never turned it on and gave it away shortly after I got it. I do have a 6100/66 and a 9500/180MP (runs BeOS R5 and an unreleased Beta of R5.1) and a Beige Desktop G3/233 (10.3 is hacked on it with XPostFacto). I also have a Mac Mini with a Core i5 and a BlackBook (the late 2007 one, with Santa Rosa chipset, so unsupported by MountainLion.) I'd still have the 6100 running if only I could find the damn AAUI base10t adapter. That machine was sweet. My first Mac. I had it running MacOS 8.1 and System 7.5.3 at one point.
** I once got a tonne of Macs from eBay by losing an auction. The seller contacted me and told me the winning bidder only wanted the bundled software and sold me the G3, Mac 2, Mac Classic, Laserwriter 360Select and a tonne of manuals and software of £15. He was happy to see the back of it, I was happy to hord "treasure."
Edited 2012-07-12 11:36 UTC
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The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
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Mine runs System 6 and boots in like, 2 seconds. *
* Power of factory installed ROM based OS (Mac Classic, has system 6 in ROM)