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- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 01:41:24 +0100
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: PowerAmiga & NT
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- From: hagar@hoa.ping.dk (Ole Aagesen)
- Message-ID: <hagar.4775@hoa.ping.dk>
- Organization: hoa - Home of Amiga
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- Hi Uwe,
- 20 Mar 96 12:25:03, Uwe Sigurd wrote about <Re: PowerAmiga & NT>
-
-
- >> Will the new PowerAmiga be able to run WindowsNT?
- >> ------------------------------------------------
-
- If it ends up as a PPCP machine, it'll run PPC Mac OS, NT, AIX, PPC AOS and
- probably a host of other operating systems. If i understand the workings of
- multiple OS'es on such a machine correctly, one can only make 'personality
- changes' at boot time. (Probably has to do with changing the Endian flag)
-
- US> Until the PowerAmiga is PPCP, I doubt NT will be ported. It COULD be US>
- though...
-
- No port should be necessary in that case, but it may need additional
- driver-wares.
-
- >> If the PA can, will it be in a window (like shapeshifter)?
- >> ---------------------------------------------------------
- >> Please excuse me if this is a dumb question. I've heard the NT handles
- >> multiple OS's quite well, but I'm unsure how this fits together on one
- >> machine?
-
- Nope, but very clean sw will run on an emulator, with a /someOS/ API routing
- calls to the host. That was the idea with multiple personalities anyway. Look
- to Sun's WABI for an example of this. (A MSDos x86 emulator featuring a Win
- API)
-
- >> Is it realistic to think that if the PA will run NT _and_ native Amiga
- >> software, that Amiga's will work their way into the professional realm
-
- Nope again, unless someone writes an amigapersonality for NT it's an either or.
- Also NT wont be happy about anything touching the hardware directly.
-
- US> Alternatively, if NT is ported to Macintosh, you can run
- US> Shapeshifter and run NT in a window there...
-
- If we are talking about a 68K based Mac (or whatever) it will not eun NT. Long
- time ago M$ stated that NT would not be ported to Big endian machines. They'll
- probably change their mind, if there's enough money in it.
-
- If we put a PPC-shapeshifter in the box, it would have to emulate all standard
- hardware of a PPCP to get NT to run or rather crawl. One will probably be
- better
- off with a bootselection.
-
- /Ole Aagesen
- hagar@hoa.ping.dk
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