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The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus

Your eyes are not deceiving you... I got an Apple TV 1st Gen, the only x86 based model (it uses a Pentium M as its CPU) booting Windows XP Service Pack 3! For reals!

This was possible through a small security flaw in the Apple TV's firmware and boot process... while the Apple TV looks for a boot.efi file on its boot partition and requires it to be a Mach-O binary to be able to boot, it doesn't actually care about the actual contents of the file! So by that note, you can wrap a kernel or bootloader from another OS into a Mach-O file and name it boot.efi, and the Apple TV won't care and will happily boot it! So after this little escapade of cursed computing, you know Linux is next! 😁

More deets are in this video, along with a link to grab a premade disk image from the Internet Archive!
youtu.be/v2w5MmiRHUo

An Apple TV 1st gen in front of a monitor. The Windows XP boot logo is displayed.
The "About Windows" dialogue box being displayed, showing this is Service Pack 3.
A little game of SkiFree being played in Windows XP
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