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run dos on imac 500,600,800?

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Name: scottnelles (by scott nelles)
Date: October 20, 2007 at 10:38:03 Pacific
OS: panther
CPU/Ram: 128,256
Product: imac 500,600,800?
Comment:

can i run dos 6.22 on imac with O/S panther?

thank you, scott nelles



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Name: Outlander
Date: October 22, 2007 at 07:29:36 Pacific
Reply:

huh???

imac500, 600, 800??? Are you refering to speed?

I am assuming you are talking about a 500mhz imac with 256mb of RAM?


In order to run DOS or Windows you will have to buy a copy of softwindows, or realPC off of eBay as these products are no longer made. Neither of these programs are OS X native, you will have to run them on the 9 side, or in a OS classic box. Running softwindows on a G3-500 you should expect speed in the range of a low end Pentium II machine.

Even a Mac-II from 1987 can emulate a DOS box, you just have to have the emulator.


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Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland)
Date: November 17, 2007 at 19:43:58 Pacific
Reply:

Any Mac with one of those fancy DOS cards (or whatever they were called) would work. But they were short lived and those iMacs did not have them, if I recall correctly.

    
 

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