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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 15:42:33 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
- Message-ID: <4hpkh9$mcg@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk>
- References: <4h57l1$rc5@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca> <972.6638T164T789@parsifal.nando.net> <4hn70k$r4u@news.zeelandnet.nl>
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- In article <4hn70k$r4u@news.zeelandnet.nl>, mennosto@zeelandnet.nl says...
- >
- >bellchri@parsifal.nando.net (Raistlin) 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
- >
- >As I understand it IBM as stopt developing OS/2 for PowerPC, :(
- >Thus someone know why?
-
- Money and Demand. ie. nobody wants it enough for them to continue development.
-
-
- >>operating system. The question remains whether or not Windows95 will work,
- and
- >Windows95 , noway , WindowsNT might be beter from what I heard.
-
- Win95 is only available on i86 architectures and I don't see this changing any
- time. WinNT binaries will only work if you have a PowerPC binary or an
- emulator for the binary format. ie. if it's an i86 binary, you need an i86
- emulator. Most of the Alpha versions of WinNT come with i86 emulators as
- native Alpha NT binaries are thin on the ground.
-
- Of course there's nothing stopping someone doing a really nice PC emulator for
- the PowerAmiga. I'd love to see Chris Hames' emulator ported to PowerPC though
- I suspect this isn't an easy task - it's assembler. Perhaps Chris might like
- to talk about this. I presume AT haven't given him a PowerAmiga yet though so
- it's pie in the sky at this point.
-
- >
- >>will games meant for 486/586 systems work with this processor. It would be
- grea
- >t
- >>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?
- >No sorry.
-
- See above. The problem is emulating the i86. That's a software problem.
- Nothing to do with the PowerPC though a fast one helps ;-) A VGA chipset or
- emulation would be useful as would a Soundblaster/GUS/etc emulation too.
-
-
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