Mastodawn

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.

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Santiago, né ?

👾2d ago

To be fair a lot of this is actually doable as prototypes at least. I can’t realistically magically recreate an open source OSX Panther as the underlying base but I could build some viewer / editor modules a on top of gnuSTEP with all the limitations this implies.

But it’s not like I do anything anyway :-)

Having late accounting issues to deal with and associated anxiety is definitely the reason I am musing about this from 4 to 5 in the morning.

Still who knows if future me feels better one day …

#RetroFutureComputing

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Johannes Brakensiek

@santi Become better soon, all the best to you!
And yes, Panther was nice, but the amount of work and genius that went into it, you won't get done by volunteers anyhow . I'm currently investigating good old WebObjects, which is comparatively small sized. It's organized amazingly neat and all open source implementations only provide a fraction of its functionality.