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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
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- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 18:25:46 GMT
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- Raistlin (bellchri@parsifal.nando.net) wrote:
- : This qustion has been asked, but I have seen several different answers. The
- : qustion is will the PowerPC chip allow you to run software from several systems.
- : The responses range from it allowing 10 operating systems, to only the Amiga.
- : I know for a fact of 3 right off the bat. Amiga of course, Mac since there
- : already are PowerPC Macs, and some version of Unix. I would think that OS/2
- : should work, since IBM helped develop the PowerPC chip and OS/2 is their
- should, but doesn't: IBM delayed and may have completely backed out
- of putting OS/2 on PPC. One problem is all the kludgey baggage of
- DOS is still a foundation of OS/2.
- : operating system. The question remains whether or not Windows95 will work, and
- I've seen powermacs running a windows 3.1 emulation.
- : will games meant for 486/586 systems work with this processor. It would be great
- : to finally have an unlimited source for software. If it's not available for the
- : Amiga OS, use a PC or Mac program. Anybody know for sure the answer? Anybody
- : owning a PowerMac know?
- Just buy a PC if you want that software. The emulation choice is still
- a bridgecard or its mac equivalent - no software emulation is very reliable,
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- Greg
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