tayklor Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Maybe A crazy idea Mac OS X on Xscale processor. I will try this with my PDA sometime and get back. Anyone else? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36429-crazy-idea/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestevo Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Sorry, but that isn't going to work. The reason why is because XScale is not based on the x86 architecture. The XScale processor is based on ARM architecture with superpipelined RISC architecture memory. Your best bet would be trying to emulate either the PPC or the x86 architectures. The fastest of these processors is clocked at 1.25 ghz. All things considered, hardware overclocking is out too. PPC would be more easily emulated under ARM than x86, especially considering the memory architecture. Still, I highly doubt you'll get it running, but best of luck. Stephen Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36429-crazy-idea/#findComment-259560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Also memory management. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36429-crazy-idea/#findComment-259696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayklor Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 I have run Peap PC on my PC Before OSX86 and it was SLOWWWW. that was on a 933 P-3 and moast PDAs are 400-600 Mhz. some guy on pear pc got mac os 6 to run at 25 mhz. OK thanks for the input. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36429-crazy-idea/#findComment-262529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathdude1284 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 lmao pearpc doesnt do classic os... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36429-crazy-idea/#findComment-262571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacRetail Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 You shouldn't use PearPC on a non-x86 processor, because only the x86-processor gets acceleration. All the others are generic and slow as hell. Don't try it. It will take hours before the MacOS Installer appears! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36429-crazy-idea/#findComment-262696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayklor Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 lmao pearpc doesnt do classic os... It was using a 68k emulator, the guy posted it on the pear pc forum. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36429-crazy-idea/#findComment-262780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergosteur Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Maybe A crazy ideaMac OS X on Xscale processor. I will try this with my PDA sometime and get back. Anyone else? maybe not so crazy after all... Apparently the iPhone/iPod Touch uses a Marvell PXA CPU, which is what they call the Xscale technology they acquired from Intel. They continually advertise that the iPhone runs 'OS X'.... so, people, how about making our iPaqs join the rest of the i-devices running OS X? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36429-crazy-idea/#findComment-926693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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