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System 7 Running On An iPhone

Submitted by Edward Kirk on March 2, 2009 - 6:05pm.
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iPod Observer reports that a group of hackers from the MacOS Project have successfully gotten an iPhone to run a modified version of Macintosh System 7. So far they already have a functional desktop, and can eve run a few simple applications from back in the day like MacDraw, MacPaint and the Calculator. It's still a little rough around the edges though, since "shutting down" System 7 crashes the device.

Hmm

Submitted by francescoratta on March 2, 2009 - 7:14pm.
Looks really cool, i just can't see what the point is to have such a old system running on a phone that has way more performance and functionality than this system.
Either way nice job

Submitted by o-matic on March 2, 2009 - 9:50pm.
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Originally Posted by francescoratta View Post
Looks really cool, i just can't see what the point is to have such a old system running on a phone that has way more performance and functionality than this system.
Either way nice job
more about the accopliment of getting a mac os to run on the iphone and will likely be the building blocks to getting os x on the iphone... well we can dream lol

Submitted by Stephen007 on March 3, 2009 - 9:19am.
I wonder how this was complicated because the iPhone runs on an ARM processor and System 7 ran on PowerPC chips.

Submitted by bsauvage on March 5, 2009 - 1:49am.
There is already an app called Mini VMac that works perfectly fine and allows you to run System 5, 6, or 7; any kind of harddrive build you want. And it runns all apps perfectly