| breyfogle 2005-10-02, 5:53 pm |
| Bible John wrote:
> On my Performa 6360 I had Virtual PC 1.x which would only work in OS 7.
> It was installed on a Zip disk with a OS 7.x system folder which I used
> to boot into and then run DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.x for fun. No its
> really just for fun. For real PC work I use my Windows 98 laptop.
>
> My understands are that Mac OSX cannot boot USB zip disks, nor boot into
> any os prior to X for some reason. Unix oses do not like booting from
> anything but hard drives I was told.
> I do not understand why Apple chooses to do this, while most PC's can be
> booted into Windows 3.x/DOS on modern machines using partition magic or
> http://www.vmware.com/.
>
> Okay so is there some Unix command or way to trick OSX so I can run this
> Virtual PC version with my Windows 3.11/DOS 6.22 emulator within Mac OSX
> classic mode?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John
>
Even if you had OS 7 on a bootable device, there is absolutely no way OS
7 will run on modern Mac OS X hardware. Any OS works mostly at the
hardware level, different hardware -> different OS version. No version
of Mac OS 6,7,8 will ever work with current Mac motherboards. Ain't
gunna happen !!
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