# iBook G3 Clamshell terminal install

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ibook-g3-clamshell-terminal-install/72088>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [November 25, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ibook-g3-clamshell-terminal-install/72088 "2021-11-25T23:33:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlanAylmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@AlanAylmer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AlanAylmer)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ibook-g3-clamshell-terminal-install/72088/1 "2021-11-25T23:33:22Z")

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Hi!

I want to install Julia to a truly ancient G3 Clamshell museum piece iBook. All the binaries for Mac seem to be 64 bit.

It has Ethernet.

The base OS X Darwin shell seems to have curl and can probably make binaries.

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**Author:** ![Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mason/32/2423_2.png) [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ibook-g3-clamshell-terminal-install/72088/2 "2021-11-25T23:56:17Z")

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The iBook G3 was a PowerPC CPU rather than x86, so getting Julia working on that would be a pretty non-trivial task.

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**Author:** ![AlanAylmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@AlanAylmer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AlanAylmer)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ibook-g3-clamshell-terminal-install/72088/3 "2021-11-26T07:15:35Z")

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Thanks for getting back. Yes it seemed ambitious.

I can’t even seem to get C working on it.

It has Perl on it so I am learning that - could be good for my Apache chops.

Alongside that I am wondering what the state of the art was with containerisation. Docker needs too much RAM so that’s not going to happen.

Hey it’s a labour of love and I have plenty computers with Julia on them 😹