I secretly feel like hitting people in their faces with a chair when they do that
Well, now that you've said it, it's no longer a secret.
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Video of 20-Year-Old Mac Operating System Running on an Apple Watch
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Well, now that you've said it, it's no longer a secret.
Why did he keep touching the Digital Crown during the boot phase, and what was that odd screen that appeared? The emulator?
What would've been even cooler is showing him actually interacting with the windows and menus.
What would've been even cooler is showing him actually interacting with the windows and menus.
It's about answering the question "Can it be done?", and that's how we ended up with the 2015 watch in the first place. Don't forget that.
That's not correct. System 7.5 could run back to a 68000, including my Macintosh SE.
Indeed it was the last version to work on a 68000; 7.6 required a 68030 if my memory serves me correctly.
System 7.5.5 ran on a Mac SE released as far back as 1987. Motorola 68000 @ 8Mhz. This is FAR from Apple's earliest PowerPC-based Macs...
...and the need for Conflict Catcher <cringe>
None of the chips used prior to the 601 were PowerPC-based.
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Exactly. I believe the Power Mac 6100 was the first with a PowerPC. Everything from the Lisa to the Quadra series used Motorola 68k.
Like others have mentioned, Mac OS 7.5 ran on the 68000. It wascapable of running on the Macintosh Plus (from 1986!) provided the machine had 4MB of RAM and a hard disk drive.
Classic Macs used 68000, 68020, 68030, and 68040 processors.
You existence makes me sick. . . and your name make my lady-friend cringe.
I agree with you comment though XD
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As for the first OS that ran on a PowerPC Mac? I think it was a special version of 7.1.
If you're a bad person, then I'm right there with you. What really is the point of this?
When System 7.5.5 was released in 1996, it required a full PowerPC-based Mac to run, and in their smallest incarnation, those machines were clunky, heavy, and pretty far from the portable devices that we have now
No it didn't. 7.5.5 ran on 68k Macs as well as PowerPC Macs It was actually the last Mac operating system that would run on non-32-bit clean Macs (such as the ones mini vMac emulates). 8.5 was the first public release of the Mac OS to require PowerPC.
Having said that though, this is really cool!
Why climb Everest? "Because it's there."
Nothing can truly run vista
The OS doesn't make the chime, the firmware in a Mac does.
I guess there are different ways to look at this, but I find it to be an incredibly concrete way to understand just how far advances in computing power have come. I think it probably helps to be someone who remembers what it was like to use that OS and macs back then. At the time, it would have been unimaginable to think of running OS 7 on a watch. It also makes one think about what advances will be made in the next 20 years.
As for running OS 7 on your apple watch for practical reasons . . . yeah, not so much.
Even for PORTRAITS?
I love it when non designers try to show they understand basic design principles. Maybe if you ever visit the Eiffel Tower you might find a reason to film the hourly twinkling lights in portrait mode because it allows you to get as much tower in the frame as possible without wasting the frame real estate on a ton of blackness on either side. One can always crop to a horizontal aspect later but you can't do the opposite.
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Not well suited for anyone watching it though. Given the low resolution of the video it would have been perfect for PiP, but being portrait that would make the video unwatchable small.
By all means film it however you like, so long as when you get home and show us your video it's landscape. That's not the case here though is it?