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Operating System / OS-7.5.5 or 7.6.1 vs. 8.6 (on a 8600)
March 02, 2010, 02:46 |
Hello everyone, I'm a new member with a question about os-7 vs. os-8.6. Love this site, by the way! Does 7.5.5 or 7.6.1 perform better than 8.6 in regards to emulating older applications written for 680x0 machines? If yes, does 7.5.5 perform better than 7.6.1, since 7.5.5 has more 680x0 native code? For my situation, I have a lot of old applications that I used to run on a 68030 mac IIci running os-6, a computer which appears to have died after a very lengthy time in storage. I am looking at acquiring a PPC 8600/200 using 8.6 that a friend has offered to me, but I have concerns about any shortcomings 8.6 may have in running some of my old software. I spent so many years with my IIci and this software when I was in college that (I confess) it would really be fun to be able to run those apps again. It comes down to the emulation capabilities of 8.6 vs 7.6.1, or 7.5.5 (the minimum the 8600 will run with, I believe). If 7.6.1 or 7.5.5 has a better chance of running my old apps than 8.6 does, I recall reading that the 8600 had to have "dedicated" os-7 installation software for the 8600/9600 series machines. Does this apply to ALL 8600's, or just the 8600/250 and 8600/300 "MachV" machines? I also read that the MachV machines are of significantly different design than that of the 8600/200, so it wouldn't surprise me if the "general" 7.6.1 installation software would be ok on this 8600/200 unit I'm looking at. Regardless of the answers I get about the emulation capabilities of old applications, I still will probably want to move the 8600/200 to os-7 for all the reasons pointed out by this site. |
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