Santiago, né ?  👾3d ago
It’s crazy to think a Raspberry Pi 5 would wipe the floor with a PowerBook G4 laptop in terms of raw performance.

Wish we could have (magically rewritten) native OSX Tiger optimized for open ARM / RISCV laptops. Yeah we have GNUStep but I mean real OSX with all the attention to details this meant 20 years ago.
Show threadSantiago, né ?  👾
Aside from the unimaginable amount of work I fear what would break this dream today would be encounter with the modern ad and JavaScript-infested web.

So many websites can bring a  class CPU to its knees and of course ruin the whole visual. Running an old PowerPC Mac today I still a great experience until you meet with the internet.
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Show threadSantiago, né ?  👾3d ago
A center piece of a reimagined Peoples’s OSX Tiger rewrite would have to be some solution to simply replace the web browser with native modules for the most common stuff so you can avoid it most of the time. Not always, just most of the time.

A sort of Reader Mode everywhere but on steroids. But one that is also a Writer. And where sharing privately / publicly is just natural and transparent. A checkbox.

All content types are defined by a set of rules defining what content is. As simple as possible: folders with files and a few json for attributes.

These could be called Collections. You create collections of texts, or images, or sounds and they have attributes / links to each other.

The main idea is that you create content but appearance is ultimately left to the viewer module.

A Collection of .md files is what makes a blog for example. You have dates and other attributes but the viewer client decides how this is laid out based on user prefs among sane choices.

A Collection of .wav files would define a music album. A video series would work the same way.

#Fantasies #RetroFutureComputing
Show threadBryan 3d ago
@santi not even enough ram to run modern Chrome on something from the early 2000’s.

OS-X Cheetah technically could run on 64MB of ram. The max you could put on an iBook I think was 320MB.
Show threadSantiago, né ?  👾2d ago
@bryan I sometimes run modern WebKit on G4 on #MorphOS (on a 800 MHz iBook) and it is so evident that even though it does work it just is a monster.

Typically on MorphOS every thing is lightweight and launches instantly. But then you hit the browser component… it is only really comfortable on smolweb and then it doesn’t make any sense having this engine around that is likely heavier than the operating system itself.