Well this takes all the anguish out of the question "should I buy the 2.4ghz or the 2.8ghz?" when you know that in 20 years from now the Apple Ball Point Pen will run Yosemite faster.
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Video of 20-Year-Old Mac Operating System Running on an Apple Watch
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Our eyes are placed side by side. Digital displays are virtually all landscape. If you have to take a video of someone alone, doing nothing, ask them to lie down. If you really need to take video of some blinky lights on a Worlds Fair relic, pick your favorites and focus on those-- or back the heck up and get some skyline.
Portrait video: always wrong
(I'm goofing around... Not trying to pass myself as a pro designer. I know you guys walk around with your heads tilted sideways-- I just don't have the neck strength for it.)
The absolute worst though is when it's recorded portrait and played back landscape because people can't figure out how to rotate it... This guy does deserve partial credit.
Did you authorize me to open this program?
Yes
Are you sure you want to run this program?
Yes
Getting ready to run the program... Continue?
Yes
Are you sure?
Yes
Encountered unknown error... Close program?
Yes
Are you sure?
Yes
Windows will now close the program... Continue?
Yes
Just wow, amazing
As an entire computer that fits on our wrists, the Apple Watch already seems like something out of a science fiction novel, but a new video from software developer Nick Lee demonstrates just how far computing has come in the last two decades.
Lee's hacked an Apple Watch running watchOS 2 to run a port of a 20-year-old Macintosh OS, System 7.5.5, using the Mini vMac Macintosh emulator.
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. Today, that same operating system can run on a tiny 38mm to 42mm wrist-worn computer.
Article Link: Video of 20-Year-Old Mac Operating System Running on an Apple Watch
Cool.
Perhaps, when we go to Mars, the astronaut will be able to use this to turn the engine on, as well as turn the lights on with HomeKit.
It would be more reliable than iOS 8.
Perhaps, when we go to Mars, the astronaut will be able to use this to turn the engine on, as well as turn the lights on with HomeKit.
It would be more reliable than iOS 8.
I welcomed it.
It's a much better experience on an iPad than landscape, as I read in portrait.
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. Today, that same operating system can run on a tiny 38mm to 42mm wrist-worn computer.
Article Link: Video of 20-Year-Old Mac Operating System Running on an Apple Watch
7.5.5 also runs on a Motorola 68030 and better. I think the mini vMac emulates a 68030 or 68040
If System 7.5.5 runs fine on the Apple Watch, why didn't Apple just ship it with that? It would have saved a lot of development time and had a lot more functionality compared to the very limited Watch OS.
The emulator has existed since the 90's. It's nothing new, some guy just compiled it for an Apple watch.
Good on them for the gimmick value but front page story? No, definitely not.
For the kicks, I stumbled upon this article some time back. Think you'll find it interesting
Gist: The iPhone 5s has 1300x more computing power than the computer that guided the Apollo 11 shuttle to the moon!
http://www.thedailycrate.com/2014/02/01/geek-tech-apollo-guidance-computer-vs-iphone-5s/
I almost died watching it boot!! Hopefully next time apple will offer a build to order option with the apple watch for SSD upgrade!
Proof of concept. To prove it can be done. Some folk love proving they can do things. Practically pointless but to them it's really fun. I found this cool too.
Some of the worlds greatest inventions have been born from people taking something and warping its intended functionality.
Without this drive of curiosity and playfulness we'd likely all be sat in caves banging on about about Rock Watch 2.
"Running" is too strong a term. "Limping" would be more appropriate for describing the speed it ran at.
Even if you found a way to get input into it, it's way too slow for anyone to want to use it.
Even if you found a way to get input into it, it's way too slow for anyone to want to use it.
it's short-sighted to think this is a useless exercise that is just an utter waste of time. there are things learned in doing these things that can be useful in future development. this may not impress you now and the video orientation distract some of you. but for a system engineer, this is an awesome feat ... to each his own, ymmv, blah-blah ...
Huh good thinking, perhaps Bethesda could have used it as the design for the pip boy in the new fallout!
