7 Apr
2007
7 Apr
'07
5:09 p.m.
On 6/4/07 21:16, "Ensor" <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk> wrote:
What hardware would this have run on, RS/6000?
I did some work in a school c. 1998 that involved re-installing NT 4.0 on a
PPC-based box. It was Acorn branded, but I've no idea what IBM (Motorola?)
reference board it was based around.
If memory served it required something called an ARC disk when installing
the OS, as the computer naturally had no BIOS. Microsoft gave up on the PPC
version at Service Pack 2. As stated elsewhere, it was of use as a
fileserver / (primary/backup) domain controller only, as there was no third
party (or Microsoft!) software compiled to run on it.
It's the only one of these beasts I've ever seen - does anybody know
anything of it? With retrospect I wish I'd offered them a new x86 box to
replace it and kept it for myself. The build quality was superb - weighed a
bloody ton!
Regards,
Austin.