We have developed software (“BAMBIOS”) that allows such legacy booting on the Intel-based Macintoshes. For example, a regular (that is, non-EFI) version of Linux can be readily booted using this software.
A mini presentation on the design of BAMBIOS is available.

My apologies to all who have sent me emails that I couldn’t respond to — I am almost entirely off email for over a month.
I hope to be able to say “done” in a matter of days now, if you know what I’m talking about.
I know the motion sensor software doesn’t work on Mac OS [...]

gbaunix is a rather contrived experiment in which we run an ancient version of the UNIX operating system on a popular hand-held game system using a simulator. Specifically, it is 5th edition UNIX (1974) running on Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, with SIMH as the core simulator.

Given the nature and scope of the field of Computer Security, it would require one or more books to even briefly touch upon all that is known in the area. A Taste of Computer Security gives you, well, a taste of (a subset of) the subject. The contents are not uniform in their depth or [...]

I finally got around to putting together some random notes on virtualization, virtual machines, etc. into a document (An Introduction to Virtualization). It might be useful as a starting point for doing stuff in this area.