Old Apple Ad with Power Mac running Windows 95

[mrSHEiK124]

What's going on here? Weren't these always PPCs/not x86?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oYVV5v51s

 

[theflyingpig]

Some Macs had PC cards in them that let them run Windows.

 

[jagec]

Also, software such as VirtualPC existed, although it was quite slow.

If you wanted to run it at a reasonable speed, you needed the card. I considered getting one, but never did.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

So it was like an expansion card with a 486 on it or something?

 

[theflyingpig]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
So it was like an expansion card with a 486 on it or something?

Pretty much.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Some Macs had PC cards in them that let them run a real O/S.

fixed

 

[Shawn]

I have one of these in the closet. The PC card has it's own processor and ram. I believe it had a Pentium 90.

 

[theflyingpig]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Some Macs had PC cards in them that let them run a real O/S.

fixed

At the time that was correct. Mac OS 8/9 was shit. OS X is far superior to Windows. Everyone knows this.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Some Macs had PC cards in them that let them run a real O/S.

fixed

At the time that was correct. Mac OS 8/9 was shit. OS X is far superior to Windows. Everyone knows this.

Not really, but at least OS X is stable. OS 9 was a piece of shit that would crash every hour. Even Windows 95 was more stable.

 

[LtPage1]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Some Macs had PC cards in them that let them run a real O/S.

fixed

At the time that was correct. Mac OS 8/9 was shit. OS X is far superior to Windows. Everyone knows this.

Not really, but at least OS X is stable. OS 9 was a piece of shit that would crash every hour. Even Windows 95 was more stable.

I have a lot of nostalgia for OS 9. You leave OS 9 alone!

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Some Macs had PC cards in them that let them run a real O/S.

fixed

At the time that was correct. Mac OS 8/9 was shit. OS X is far superior to Windows. Everyone knows this.

0 problems running vista here.

 

[KeithP]

9.0 was pretty bad...I stuck with 8.6 until 9.0.4 (I think that's the correct number, don't remember exactly). However, 9.0.4 and up was fine. If it was crashing every hour your system was FUBAR.

Here is some info on the card FWIW http://lowendmac.com/quadra/qu...10-dos-compatible.html

-KeithP

 

[Shawn]

I don't remember what version we used at school but I took a computer graphics class and I was always losing my work because OS 9 was so unstable.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Shawn
I don't remember what version we used at school but I took a computer graphics class and I was always losing my work because OS 9 was so unstable.

*makes beachball noise*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1KHZp5ZMJQ

 

[Shawn]

HAHA that's great.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Some Macs had PC cards in them that let them run a real O/S.

fixed

At the time that was correct. Mac OS 8/9 was shit. OS X is far superior to Windows. Everyone knows this.

They both have some REALLY annoying bugs.

 

[Fayd]

i thought there were versions of early versions of windows compiled to run on PPC processors...

 

[ajayjuneja]

Yes, not "early" versions of windows per say, but Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 had PPC versions available.

 

[Rubycon]

classic

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: ajayjuneja
Yes, not "early" versions of windows per say, but Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 had PPC versions available.

NT 3.51 and 4.0 arent early versions, compared to XP and vista?

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
So it was like an expansion card with a 486 on it or something?

Pretty much.

And it's own ram.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: ajayjuneja
Yes, not "early" versions of windows per say, but Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 had PPC versions available.

NT 3.51 and 4.0 arent early versions, compared to XP and vista?

little known trivia: vista is the 6th version of OS/2

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Some Macs had PC cards in them that let them run a real O/S.

fixed

At the time that was correct. Mac OS 8/9 was shit. OS X is far superior to Windows. Everyone knows this.

0 problems running vista here.

That's because you can't do anything with it.