can I run Mac OS 9 or 10 on an AT system?

[1timebuilder]

Am am building my first computer and am currently running OS 9 o my IMac, I want to porporation my HD with Linux and Max OS, can this be done on an system with an AMD Athlon prosser?

[shecky981]

the quick answer is no.

the long answer is that in order to do so, you would need to get a "Mac emulator" to run on the PC to run mac OS, and, tho i have heard of such things, they generally either don't work, work slow, or work very unstable.

the problem is that much the way VirtualPC emulates a windows hardware environment so you can run windows on Mac hardware, so too must a Mac emulator create a Mac hardware environment to run the OS under windows hardware.

i could be completely wrong on this, as i have not looked for such software for a while, but, i would still STRONGLY not recomend even bothering to try and put MacOS onto a Wintel PC.

besides, Mac's are so much better than PC's anyway, why bother?
(HA!!!! ok...im just making a joke here...don't eveyone start flaming me)

-Shecky <----soon to be flamed wantonly by every user of these forums

[Colonel Sanders]

I think the Mac processor have comeptley differnt architecture optimized for a Mac OS, I think they have 128-bit CPUs?

Logan