[SunRescue] G3 upgrade for PowerMac 7300

[Dave McGuire]

On April 15, Booger McGee wrote:
> > And I"ve got a brand new copy of OSX here, waiting on them to add 
> > support
> > for 3rd-party G3 upgrade cards (I've heard rumors that they may 
> > eventually
> > "backport" OSX to the 604e-based PCI macs as well, after some speed
> > improvements).
> 
> Last word from the Darwin crew was sometime after snowballs spend a 
> night in hell. :(  The power just isn't there.  And I'm starting to 
> believe them...

  Hmm, that's funny.  The 604e-based machines sure had enough power
for heavy-hitters like Photoshop.  Why can't they run this new
operating system?

  It's a design choice to purposely ignore an entire class of
a-model-line-old-but-nowhere-near-obsolete machines.  Nothing more.

           -Dave McGuire