iBook identity crises

PowerPC Macs

When I ran Apple System Profiler on my iBook i noticed that it thinks it has a 68LC040?

Odd...

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makillik's picture

Forgot the image...

FunnymanSE30's picture

i think that is pretty cool i

i think that is pretty cool is that Mac Os 9 ? are you running wish i were?

wow a 600 mhz 040 i want one

wow a 600 mhz 040 i want one of those for my performa

FunnymanSE30's picture

no you wouldn't it'd go up in

no you wouldn't it'd go up in a poof of smoke

I remember in resedit in the

I remember in resedit in the pre-x era you could modify that info, if i remember correctly. Pretty cool though.

macg4's picture

coolness!

coolness!

Re: no you wouldn't it'd go up in

FunnymanSE30 wrote:
no you wouldn't it'd go up in a poof of smoke

i know i was being sarcastic

I got this on my old 604 too.

I got this on my old 604 too. I think it's because the emulated 68K chip in the PowerPC is based on either the 68020 or 68040.

Either that, or ASP has no clue what chip it is and is just resorting to the first string in some internal table. Since your version of ASP is probably >= 8.0, and the slowest chip supported was a 68LC040, that's probably what is the first element in the list.

Probably looks like {68LC040, 68040, PowerPC 601, PowerPC 603...} and your CPU isn't "known" to your version of ASP since it's outside of the list. That's my guess.