kevincadogan Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 will it ever be possible to run macos on regular sse? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2299-mac-os-on-sse/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaev Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 As far as I know - it will NOT be possible. Apple says in their transition docs, that SSE3 is optional, but SSE and SSE2 - are required. So... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2299-mac-os-on-sse/#findComment-15015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhooda Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 There are no ways to run it natively, as a worthwhile percentage of the code in Mac OS X is SSE2, and you can't simply patch 1 or 2% of 2.7 GBs that fast. However, you can use emulators that use dynamic translation for the code that is "illegal" on that processor such as QEMU or Bochs. Unfortunately, the faster and more popular emulators such as VMware cannot do this as all they do is a dynamic recompile, which makes the code more efficient, but still can't "translate" SSE2 code into SSE. It would be somewhat slower. Check out this topic for some information: here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2299-mac-os-on-sse/#findComment-15022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevincadogan Posted September 10, 2005 Author Share Posted September 10, 2005 guess i better just stick with sse3. thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2299-mac-os-on-sse/#findComment-15035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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