Re: Mac & Octave

[Joe Koski]

The approach below is one avenue. I'm using a Mac that came originally with
OS 7.5 (one of the buggiest, ever, by the way). Over the eight years I have
upgraded the Mac, and currently run OS X 10.2.8 (and octave). My OS X
installer came via a Sonnet upgrade to a G4 cpu. You can Google Sonnet if
you're interested. If you are going to install a UNIX-like OS, you probably
also need more memory and a larger hard disk. If you're not interested in
doing several simultaneous upgrades, I'd recommend the used machine approach
suggested below. If nothing else, the used machine would be easier to
upgrade.

Joe Koski

on 3/12/04 7:37 AM, A S Hodel at address@hidden wrote:

> On Friday, March 12, 2004, at 08:21 AM, José Colmenares wrote:
> 
>> I want to install octave on an old mac running Mac OS 7.5
>> ¿is that posible?
> 
> On the mac you need a Unix-like operating system to install Octave.
> Several
> years ago I ran Octave on mac OS 8.6 under MachTen Unix from Tenon
> Intersystems.  This product was discontinued not long before Mac OS X
> came out.
> 
> Note that the current version of Octave (2.1.55) compiles easily under
> Mac OS X,
> so it may be worth a $300-$500 for you to purchase a used G3 machine
> and use
> Octave on that.
> 
> If you don't want to purchase a new or used machine, your choices are:
> - install Linux on your old mac (you can use Mac On Linux,
> http://www.maconlinux.org
> to continue using your mac OS 7.5 if you want).  There are several
> flavors
> of linux available for the Mac; I've used Yellow Dog Linux from
> Terrasoft.
> It supports most powerpc macintosh computers.  If you're using a 680x0
> processor, then you will likely need to use some other form of Linux.
> I don't have the experience to make a recommendation.
> - obtain an old copy of MachTen Unix that will run under 7.5, then try
> to
> install Octave (not later than version 2.1.12, if I remember right).
> I recently threw away all of my old MachTen diskettes and CD's, so
> I can't help you here.
> 
> A. S. Hodel Dept. ECE, 200 Broun Hall, Auburn University AL 36849-5201
> (334) 844-1854/fax(334) 844-1809,
> http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/hodelas , address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
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