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- From: jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger)
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- Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 20:29:48 GMT
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- fred j mccall 575-3539 (mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com) wrote:
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- : Somehow I get the feeling that they had to port the UNIX kernel to
- : Alpha before it would run. Hardware independent? Just how would that
- : work?
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- Yes, UNIX is hardware independant. However you must port the code to the
- actual processors and then do some minor re-writing. The PowerPC on the
- other hand will run a combination OS developed by IBM and Apple.
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