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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
Subject: run dos on imac 500,600,800?
OS: panther
CPU/Ram: 128,256
Model/Manufacturer: 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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Response Number 1

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

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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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Response Number 2

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

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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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