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Quad-Processor PowerMacs

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grneyedjay

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May 19, 2004
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Does anyone else remember the DayStar PowerMacs? I stumbled across some information on them....I once worked at a place that had a DayStar--4 Processors (can't remember how fast), 512mb ram, cant remember the hd but i remember there were 4 of them....yeah, all in 1998!! Or it might have been bought earlier..wow.

http://lowendmac.com/daystar/genesis.html
 
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StrangeQuark

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A/UX was more of an early 90's thing. I wouldn't be suprised if it could run it though.

Edit: Speaking of anachronistic software. I just found out that a circa 1985 copy of MacDraw from my Dad's old compact Mac runs perfectly happily under Classic on my Rev C PB 12". I love OS X. Backward compatible and still faster than an ornithophobic being chased by an ostrich.
 
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NusuniAdmin

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A/UX ran on the wg servers and such. Before my quadra wg server 95 died 2 days ago it was running some very of a/ux. I gave it a proper funeral.... :( The hd has spun down for the last time :( :( :( :(
 
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grneyedjay

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themadchemist said:
wouldn't have done much good back then...Before OS X, Mac OS didn't handle preemptive multitasking very well.
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Yeah, we were running Adobe After Effects and you had to have special multiprocessor plugins to get it to use all 4, and worked quite well.....for other applications, not so much..
 
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themadchemist

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grneyedjay said:
Yeah, we were running Adobe After Effects and you had to have special multiprocessor plugins to get it to use all 4, and worked quite well.....for other applications, not so much..
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ah, that would do it. forgot about the ol' plugins. :cool:
 
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