Recently I found a PowerPC Emulator caller PearPC for Intel. It allows you to install Operating Systems as OS/X and Linux which run on PowerPC over an Intel platform. It runs on Windows and it is similar to VirtualPC or VMWare software.
Rosetta is a discontinued dynamic binary translator for Mac OS X that allowed many PowerPC applications to run on certain Intel-based Macintosh. The 68k emulator was given access to the very lowest levels of the OS by being at the same. FinderPop 2.5.7. Right in the middle of 2018, I’m doing my standard search for PowerPC apps and found FinderPop which has brought a whole new life to my “pretty” and “powerful” 15 year old Mac computer.
At this time, run AIX on PearPC it is not able, because there is a problem with the boot starting from the CDROM ISO Image (it is not recognized the ISO file as a bootable image, so it doesn't start). I think it could be bypassed using a recognizable booting image first and later run the bootfile.exe, but maybe it doesn't work either. I wonder if someone already made this to work? Do anyone have an AIX running nowadays on an Intel platform? Regards Luis A. Rojas Kramer //.- INTERESTED IN THIS MESSAGE? RELATED CONTENT - INTEL System Engineer (Dice Jobs - North America) -.// '.
This is a guess: An iso file isn't a bootable image it is a filesystem map. To use the iso correctly you will normally have to run it through a program which understands the.iso format (such as Nero for Windows XP) and burn the disc from it. What you then get on the CD is a complete filesystem: An iso file on a CD bu itself is generally useless.Original Message- Hi. Recently I found a PowerPC Emulator caller PearPC for Intel. It allows you to install Operating Systems as OS/X and Linux which run on PowerPC over an Intel platform. It runs on Windows and it is similar to VirtualPC or VMWare software.
At this time, run AIX on PearPC it is not able, because there is a problem with the boot starting from the CDROM ISO Image (it is not recognized the ISO file as a bootable image, so it doesn't start). I think it could be bypassed using a recognizable booting image first and later run the bootfile.exe, but maybe it doesn't work either. I wonder if someone already made this to work? Do anyone have an AIX running nowadays on an Intel platform? Regards Luis A. Rojas Kramer //.- INTERESTED IN THIS MESSAGE?
RELATED CONTENT - Brio Developer - Business Intel Client PCs as Strategic Assets (White Paper) -.//. Hi Recently I found a PowerPC Emulator caller PearPC for Intel. It allows you to install Operating Systems as OS/X and Linux which run on PowerPC over an Intel platform. It runs on Windows and it is similar to VirtualPC or VMWare software. Assuming PearPC can mount ISO images, even if it could you still need the BIOS and preboot which are different between Mac Power PC's and RS/6000's so I would be very surprised if anyone got AIX to boot under PearPC. Cheers Ian Manners He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.Unknown //.- INTERESTED IN THIS MESSAGE?
RELATED CONTENT - UFAC All-Source Intel Analyst Client PCs as Strategic Assets (White Paper) -.//. Hi, I've been looking at the PearPC web site and it hasn't been updated in over a year. Does any have any up todate information? Jim From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 01:39:50 +1000 Subject: RE:ibm-aix-l AIX on Intel with a Po werPC Emulator Hi Recently I found a PowerPC Emulato r caller PearPC for Intel. It allows you to install Operating Systems as OS/X and Linux which run on PowerPC over an Intel platform. It runs on Windows and it is similar to VirtualPC or VMWare software. Assumin g PearPC can mount ISO images, even if it could you still need the BIOS an d preboot which are different between Mac Power PC's and RS/6000's so I wo uld be very surprised if anyone got AIX to boot under PearPC.
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RELATED CONTENT - C/C, Linux, OO, Powerpc Managing and Monitoring a Primary Wireless Network (White Paper) -.//. Hi I tried 2 years ago with PearPC and didn't work ok with AIX. In fact i was unable to install.
Luis is right. It's far much easier to config Solaris10 on x86, even on a VMWare virtual machine.Original Message- Hi.
At this time, run AIX on PearPC it is not able, because there is a problem with the boot starting from the CDROM ISO Image (it is not recognized the ISO file as a bootable image, so it doesn't start). I think it could be bypassed using a recognizable booting image first and later run the bootfile.exe, but maybe it doesn't work either. I wonder if someone already made this to work? Do anyone have an AIX running nowadays on an Intel platform?
Regards Luis A. Rojas Kramer. Did you try to use nim to install it. I wonder if it would ever come up:) best regards, enrique. Right, might be easier, but booting aix on a pc server would be more fun, wouldn't it???? - cdelgadop via ibm-aix-l wrote: Hi I tried 2 years ago with PearPC and didn't work ok with AIX. In fact i was unable to install.
Luis is right. It's far much easier to config Solaris10 on x86, even on a VMWare virtual machine. -Original Message- Hi.
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I think it could be bypassed using a recognizable booting image first and later run the bootfile.exe, but maybe it doesn't work either. I wonder if someone already made this to work?
Do anyone have an AIX running nowadays on an Intel platform? Regards Luis A. Rojas Kramer 'Intelligence is like an underwear. It is important that you have it, but not necessary that you show it.'
' PR+MOMA+E+PUBDCDSX+WP-MO?PP+nCO-PO!o?GA-c!P5P?P6-Ee-Ev+Eo!uouL+wm!os! Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! NIM runs on linux x86. The RPMs are on the first DISK of the AIX disk set. It's a pain, but you can do it.it might be a little fun getting AIX to run on something like PearPC - you might have more luck with an older version of AIX. Hell, Apple made a powerpc server many years ago that ran AIX.and IBM might just be able to run x86 linux VMs in the near future. It's only as impossible as you make it.
From: Gatoviejo via ibm-aix-l mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:45 PM To: bhoran Subject: RE:ibm-aix-l AIX on Intel with a PowerPC Emulator Are you from Mars? This guy is looking for an emulator and you think he'll have NIM.geesh. If you cant contribute seriously, do not.Original Message- did you try to use nim to install it.
I wonder if it would ever come up:) best regards, enrique. Right, might be easier, but booting aix on a pc server would be more fun, wouldn't it???? So, if you got to work AIX on Intel, then please post the steps. David From: bhoran via ibm-aix-l mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:50 PM To: David Gutierrez Subject: RE: ibm-aix-l AIX on Intel with a PowerPC Emulator Posted by bhoran on 02:47:00 PM NIM runs on linux x86. The RPMs are on the first DISK of the AIX disk set. It's a pain, but you can do it.it might be a little fun getting AIX to run on something like PearPC - you might have more luck with an older version of AIX.
Hell, Apple made a powerpc server many years ago that ran AIX.and IBM might just be able to run x86 linux VMs in the near future. It's only as impossible as you make it. From: Gatoviejo via ibm-aix-l mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:45 PM To: bhoran Subject: RE:ibm-aix-l AIX on Intel with a PowerPC Emulator Are you from Mars?
This guy is looking for an emulator and you think he'll have NIM.geesh. If you cant contribute seriously, do not.Original Message- did you try to use nim to install it. I wonder if it would ever come up:) best regards, enrique. Right, might be easier, but booting aix on a pc server would be more fun, wouldn't it???? A long time ago, I was able to get a version of aix 5.0 (yes, 5.0) to run with PearPC and some adjustments. I haven't tried since then.really, the easiest way is to get a 44p or 43p if you want a cheap aix box.if you don't mind running older versions of AIX - you may even find someone willing to give you a c10.circa 1995. for free.
But microchannel isn't supported after 5.1. NIM does run on linux. I wouldn't call that fun either. (Early AIX 5 was part of the Monterrey project which included a port to the Itanic (I mean Itanium) chip) I don't have publishable steps to make this happen. Currently the easiest way to get this to run would be by reverse engineering the boot process of the hardware and OS you want to boot. I don't think the folks at Itty Bitty Machine would be very happy about that. If you do, however - remember that your registers (real or virtual) should be initialized to 0xdeadbeef.
After looking at the PearPC site,I think you'll be hard-pressed to find something (an emulator) that will boot AIX (that you can download). From: David Gutierrez via ibm-aix-l mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:27 PM To: bhoran Subject: RE: ibm-aix-l AIX on Intel with a PowerPC Emulator So, if you got to work AIX on Intel, then please post the steps. David From: bhoran via ibm-aix-l mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:50 PM To: David Gutierrez Subject: RE: ibm-aix-l AIX on Intel with a PowerPC Emulator NIM runs on linux x86. The RPMs are on the first DISK of the AIX disk set. It's a pain, but you can do it.it might be a little fun getting AIX to run on something like PearPC - you might have more luck with an older version of AIX. Hell, Apple made a powerpc server many years ago that ran AIX.and IBM might just be able to run x86 linux VMs in the near future.
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It's only as impossible as you make it. From: Gatoviejo via ibm-aix-l mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:45 PM To: bhoran Subject: RE:ibm-aix-l AIX on Intel with a PowerPC Emulator Are you from Mars? This guy is looking for an emulator and you think he'll have NIM.geesh. If you cant contribute seriously, do not.Original Message- did you try to use nim to install it. I wonder if it would ever come up:) best regards, enrique.
Right, might be easier, but booting aix on a pc server would be more fun, wouldn't it????
Compiled by and edited by - 2006.02.10 This Week's Apple and Desktop Mac News The Apple Store and several other vendors have run out of 17' G5 iMacs, and the Intel Core Duo models are receiving nearly universal accolades - along with warnings of slow Rosetta emulation and the absence of 'Classic' mode. On that front, a PowerPC emulator, is now available in an experimental Intel build that should make Classic available on Macintel hardware.
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News & Opinion. Products. Software. News & Opinion Good-bye iMac G5 Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng says: 'With stock of iMacs G5 dwindling and even selling out, the transition to Intel for the iMac line may be coming to a close. MacRumors is reporting that stock of 17' iMac G5s has completely run out at retail stores and is also no longer available from the Apple Store online. Additionally, 20' iMac G5s have been marked down US$1699 to $1499 (a fairly significant discount, in Apple-land) and running even cheaper out of the.edu store, which indicates a push for Apple to finally finish clearing out its iMac G5 inventory altogether sooner rather than later.'
Link: 17' iMac G5 Is History The Register's Tony Smith says: 'Apple has killed off the 17in iMac G5 - at least, the machine is no longer available from either the UK or the US online AppleStores, or stores throughout Europe and Asia-Pacific, though it remains listed on the main Apple website. The move comes just days after Apple cut the price of the 20in iMac G5 by $200 in the States and £150 in Britain. 'It was widely assumed that the price cuts were intended to help shift remaining stocks of the iMac G5 as Apple migrates to Intel-based machines. The Core Duo-equipped consumer desktop - known simply as the 'iMac' - was only launched in the second week of January and began shipping at that time, so Apple's done pretty well to rid itself of the 17in PowerPC-based model in a month.' Link: Intel iMac 'Very Close to Perfect' The Boston Herald's Eric Convey says: 'Apple's iMac has been a hit since long before the latest version came out, but some extremely important changes under the hood pushed the newest version to the top of the Inspecting Gadgets 'things I'd like to review' list. 'The iMac is the first Mac to employ Intel chips.
With the faster speed the dual core processor brings, what was already a good computer is now very close to perfect.' Link: Classic Incompatibility, Slow Rosetta Mean Wait on Intel iMac The latest computer from Apple uses a powerful new processor, but The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro suggests it may be worth waiting for it to be debugged. 'The extraordinary thing about Apple's new iMac is how ordinary it is to operate. It looks, sounds and works almost exactly like the version it replaces, to the point where many Mac users probably couldn't pick it out of a lineup. 'Most computer companies switch processor architectures only a little more often than human beings switch heads, and with good reason. Apple had done it back in the mid-1990s, when it moved to PowerPC chips - a prolonged, painful process with its own vocabulary of system-error messages - and Microsoft has yet to attempt it with any consumer flavor of Windows.
The new iMac, however, makes this sort of brain surgery seem Band-Aid easy. 'But most Mac programs aren't yet available as 'universal' Intel-PowerPC releases. In those cases, the iMac and such other Intel-based machines as the MacBook Pro laptop due next month rely on a layer of software called Rosetta to translate PowerPC code into Intel instructions. 'Much of the time, Rosetta is invisible. Microsoft Office launched only a little slower than normal, then acted exactly as it would on a G4 or G5 Mac. The same went for a long list of other Mac programs tested. A Hewlett- Packard printer-scanner combo worked as usual, and I had no problem installing drivers for devices from HP and Epson.
'Rosetta could not, however, run demos of the games WWII Online and Doom 3 at any acceptable speed. LimeWire, a file-sharing program, and NeoOffice, a version of the OpenOffice suite, wouldn't start or crashed every time.
Microsoft's Virtual PC emulation software doesn't work either. And Rosetta can't translate 'Classic' programs written for Mac OS 9 or older versions of Apple's operating system; Mac OS X actually stamps their icons with a 'forbidden' graphic.
'Don't even think of using an Intel-based Mac without a gigabyte of memory on board, not the 512 MB that would suffice on other models.' Link: Intel Puts iMac on Steroids BusinessWeek's Stephen H. Wildstrom says: 'The real payback of the new Intel-based Mac will be down the road when software developers have time to catch up 'The most remarkable thing about Apple Computer's newest iMac is that, even after using it for a while, it's hard to tell just how different it is from the identical-looking iMac G5 introduced last fall. Don't be deceived by the similarities.
Hidden in the new iMac is a processor that will let this line of Macs grow and meet the increasing performance demands of software.' Link: First Look at Intel iMac Computerworld's Ken Mingis says: 'Quick Mac riddle: What looks like an iMac G5, sounds like an iMac G5 when it starts up, and feels faster than a Power Mac G5? 'Answer: The new Intel-based iMac that arrived recently from Apple Computer Inc. So I could get some hands-on time with the company's first Mactel machine - at least until those new (and newly renamed) MacBook Pro laptops arrive later this month. 'So how does the new iMac fare in regular use? This latest generation of Apple's all-in-one runs circles around its predecessor - most of the time.' Link: New iMacs: Familiar Look Is Deceiving Business Week's Stephen H.
Wildstrom says: 'The most remarkable thing about Apple Computer's newest iMac is that even after using it for a while, it's hard to tell just how different it is from the identical-looking iMac G5 introduced last fall. Don't be deceived by the similarities. Hidden in the new iMac is a processor that will let this line of Macs grow and meet the increasing performance demands of software. 'The 17-inch (US$1,299) and 20-inch ($1,699) iMacs are all-in-one designs where the electronics are housed behind the display. These are the first Macs to hit the market using Intel chips - the Core Duo processors. A MacBook Pro notebook will be out in March, with prices starting at $1,999, to replace the 15-inch PowerBook G4.
'It's going to take software developers a while to convert their programs, especially if they take pains to optimize the code for performance on Intel's twin processors. For example, Microsoft has pledged to write a new, Intel-specific version of Office for the Mac, but it's not saying when it will be ready.' Link: New iMac Has Hybrid Vigor The position of Associated Press (AP) is that from any of its copyrighted articles without paying $12.50 or more for a 'quotation license'. Rather than pay this fee or risk the wrath of AP, we are removing all AP quotes from the site along with links to those articles. We regret any inconvenience to our readers, but we will never pay for what is considered Fair Use under copyright law.
We consider brief quotations in our news roundups to be Fair Use and a benefit to the site that we quoted from and linked to. (We adhere to the, and our specifically allows quoting up to 50% or 300 words of our original content, whichever is less.) iMac Core Duo Keyboard Problem Hardmac's Lionel reports: 'Some users have been facing problems with the keyboard of their brand new iMac Core Duo. Randomly, but regularly, the keyboard freezes, and one needs to unplug it to solve the problem; till the next freeze.' Link: Apple #1 in European Education Macworld UK's Karen Haslam reports: 'Apple has confirmed that it's taken the number one spot in the western European education market.
'Apple's education market share in western Europe is now 15.2 per cent, relegating Dell, with 14.7 per cent, to second place. 'Gartner analyst Isabelle Durand confirmed: 'During the fourth quarter 2005, Apple became the number one PC vendor in the Western European Education market. The company has continued to grow very strongly (+22.4 per cent) and achieved a 15.2 per cent of market share in Q4 2005.'
'Durand also confirmed that according to Gartner figures, 'Apple market share in the UK education market during the fourth quarter 2005 was 12.5 per cent.' ' Link: iMac Core Duo Worship SpyMac's Kristie Masuda says: 'In the days approaching Valentine's Day, it seems it's the new iMac that everyone loves the most. 'What was already a good computer is now very close to perfect. 'Praise for Apple's recently released Intel-based iMac has been prevalent around the Web this week. 'With article titles such as 'Apple's Intel-based iMac is a Winner', 'It's iMac on Steroids' and 'iMac running on Intel is speedy', the iMac is not short of exaltation.'
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