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- From: cfauconn@eduserv.rug.ac.be (Christophe Fauconnier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
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- Date: 5 Mar 1996 12:46:27 GMT
- Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium
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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
- : operating system. The question remains whether or not Windows95 will work, and
- : 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?
-
- What about the sound cards, ang graphic cards of Pc's mac ,...
- HOw will you be able tor un games, that are bad programmed, on a non
- standard machine, when even on a normal PC , there are so much problems ...
- and how many hard disk will you need ???
- one for each OS ??
- I ' ve already tried myself, to fromat a PC or Amiga HD , with a
- partition of both , and it' s damn difficult, and I did'n t work in the
- end .
-
- Maybe, the Q-os ????
-
- : Thanks,
- : Chris
-
- : Touch this staff and die!!! - Raistlin -
-
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- Christophe.
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- christophe.fauconnier@rug.ac.be
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- url: http://studwww.rug.ac.be/~cfauconn
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