While refurbishing a PowerMac 6100 I bought at eBay's I was wondering about the DOS compatibilty card within this machine. It carries a 486/66 DX Intel CPU along with a RAM slot, sharing several hardware from the Mac side.
Ok, this one is able to run DOS 6.1, Win 3.1, Win 95 (as far as I know) as some sort of virtual disk or as a OS installed onto a "real" harddrive , but no NT, Linux or OS/2.
Now how about using the old Intel versions of NeXTstep with this card on that PowerMac 6100? Does anyone know any successful procedure on doing this? Can this be done?
J
If 95 will run you could run it via VirtualPC or Qemu...
But a 486? I'd say it's not worth the effort.
I´ve never been into deep with x86 machines so I can´t decide wether a 486 DX is enough. What systems were "actual" in times when NeXTstep 3.3 appeared for Intel machines?
J
I remember the PentiumPro was about to ship, and it was when everyone was wondering if any 16bit legacy code would trash the cpu...
I know that it needs a 486 as a minimum, but after running NS no qemu with the cpu acceleration thing, it'll feel like a 10 year+ old computer.
I tried to install it on my OrangePCi card (maxed ram and upped to 333Mhz using a powerleap adapter) but I got stuck at driver loading. I have not yet fully tested all the drivers but it might work.
The Canon object.station which was purposely designed to run NeXTstep 3.3 has a 486DX4-100. It uses a Winengine video chip set and a Buslogic SCSI card or generic IDE ports. The object.station 31 was IDE based and the 41 was SCSI.