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Watch Mac OS 7.5.5 Running On An Apple Watch (Video)
TechCrunch ^
| June 24, 2015
| by John Biggs
Posted on 06/24/2015 7:40:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Nick Lee, a dedicated programmer with access to WatchOS 2.0, has ported Mac OS 7.5.5 to his wrist. Thats right: the OS you used in the 1990s to make your zine can now boot albeit slowly on your Apple Watch. He used Mini VMac, an early Mac emulator, and recompiled it for the Watch.
Can the Watch actually run these sorts of programs well? Sure. The Watchs S1 chip is roughly equivalent to the iPhone 4Ss A5 chip which, as we well know, is plenty fast.
MacOS System 7.5.x shipped on ~100MHz PowerPC chips with ~24MB of RAM, a bit higher in the later models. So the Watch most certainly has more processing power, wrote Hacker News user MBurns.
Its an amazing hack and quite fun to see that bit of Mac OS nostalgia booting up on a lozenge of electronics about as big as the Return key on a 1991-era Power Mac. Now if we can just get the Apple Watch to run Doom
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: applewatch; classicmacos; fanbois; icult; itime; macos; religion; superexciting
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Hacker runs Apple MacOS 7.5.5 on the Apple Watch 2.0. . . Not too useful, but it runs. Now if they can just figure out how to connect a mouse to it! PING!
![](http://i60.tinypic.com/2nv5rw1.jpg)
Apple Watch running MacOS 7.5.5
Ping!
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posted on
06/24/2015 7:43:42 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
06/24/2015 8:27:20 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: Swordmaker
You’re right, that IS more interesting than watching paint dry.
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posted on
06/24/2015 8:34:58 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Swordmaker
Please! Doom on the Watch! Yes!
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posted on
06/24/2015 8:45:49 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
To: bigbob
My thoughts exactly.
That’s 00:01:51 of my life that I’ll never get back.
To: martin_fierro; bigbob
Thats 00:01:51 of my life that Ill never get back. Sometimes you just have to wonder WHY? Just because you can do something is there any value in doing it? As i said, if they could figure out how to get a mouse attached, THEN they might have something. . . but they'd need a microscope to appreciate what they'd have.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:38:08 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
Very cool. Steve Jobs would probably enjoy the adaptation. I liked how the aliases appeared at the bottom of the screen as the OS was booting up. Yes, like the article says, I made many zines on 1990’s OS.
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posted on
06/24/2015 10:13:04 PM PDT
by
Falconspeed
("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
To: Falconspeed
Very cool. Steve Jobs would probably enjoy the adaptation. I liked how the aliases appeared at the bottom of the screen as the OS was booting up. Yes, like the article says, I made many zines on 1990s OS. Not Aliases, Extensions. I can't imagine having to use Conflict Catcher on the Apple Watch to figure out what was causing something not to work right.
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posted on
06/24/2015 10:16:05 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
“Extensions.” Thank you for the correction. Also, thank you for your cool Apple articles.
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posted on
07/10/2015 10:51:47 PM PDT
by
Falconspeed
("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
To: Falconspeed
Extensions. Thank you for the correction. Also, thank you for your cool Apple articles. Thanks for your appreciation. . .
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posted on
07/10/2015 11:16:49 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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