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NanoRaptor

The PowerBook G3 Quattro was fitted with four 300Mhz PowerPC G3 processors, enabling it to boot four operating systems at once. A favourite of admins who wanted to show off, working examples rarely appear for sale – most are still in active use.

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GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME, WHITOID πŸƒβ€πŸ’¨ πŸ‘©
My dad had one of these for work. He was a systems engineer at Cyberdyne.
rifter

@NanoRaptor The keyboard was made to type small fonts with small keys into the small screens.

Maddler the Badger

@rifter @NanoRaptor there was an "Advanced" model, with 4 different keyboards too.

Maddler the Badger

@rifter @NanoRaptor also, Apple's R&D just announced they're working on a 32" Macbook Pro, to make use of the newer 10 cores processors. Foldable screens will allow to resize the screen estate allocated to each OS, and cores will be moved across accordingly.

viq

@NanoRaptor Whoa. Was there any way for the systems to communicate with each other?

LaPingvino πŸŸ™ :ir:

@NanoRaptor haha loving how you put Plan9 up there xD and is that NextStep or just an old Linux distro?

Elissa

@NanoRaptor Can I just express how glorious your image alt text is here?

mia

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social but how am i supposed to use plan 9 with only one trackpad button? can’t even chord in acme!

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