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- Path: bsuvc.bsu.edu!02jmfelton
- From: 02jmfelton@bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What can we do with CHRP?
- Date: 9 Apr 96 12:01:03 -0500
- Organization: Ball State University
- Message-ID: <1996Apr9.120103.1@bsuvc.bsu.edu>
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- In article <633.6672T1225T1578@avicom.net>, grubic@avicom.net (James Grubic) writes:
- > So let's say that AT does the smart thing and comes out with a CHRP PowerPC
- > Amiga. How difficult would it be to run multiple OS's on it?
- >
- > Like, I would want to have a MacOS, AmigaOS, C64/128 OS (Heh), and possibly
- > Windows NT running on the sucker.
- >
- > I don't mean a ShapeShifter kinda thing...I mean the real deal. How would the
- > machine recognize a Mac or Amiga formatted hard drive, and boot for that
- > particular OS? Would ROMs still need to be involved?
- >
- > I'm curious about the future, since it obviously will involve spending tons of
- > my hard-earned money....
- >
- >
- > ---
- > James Grubic
- > Microcomputer/Network Specialist
- > Bozeman Public Schools
- >
- I suspect it would work similar to how it is done is PCs now. I used
- to have a seperate OS/2 partition and windows partition on my mothers
- 486 for a short period of time. OS/2 came with a utility that created
- a seperate really small partition that would boot first and then ask
- you what you wanted to boot to. I know there are also seperate
- utilities for this purpose available for pcs. I suspect with a CHRP
- machine being so similar to the standards used in PCs that this would
- be an easy jump to make. This is, of course, just an educated guess.
- I look forward to having such a machine myself.
- While i have everyones attention, has anyone read Dvorak's column in
- the April 23rd issue of PC Magazine? If he's right it does not bode
- well for the amiga. I'm a multiplatform kinda guy but my real love
- stays with the amiga. What we need is a machine that can do anything
- any other platform can do faster. (Hey AT. Some advertising wouldn't
- hurt either!) I'll be glad when we stop playing catch up and get ahead
- where we belong again. Eh, then again, I want it all.
- joseph felton
- 02jmfelton@bsuvc.bsu.edu
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