r.stricklin wrote: Worth mentioning that it's also quite painful to get back to OF firmware after putting NT on the Motorola and PowerPersonal boxes. My little brother has my PP 850. I should go get it sometime. Doc

On 7 Apr 2007 at 3:42, Dave McGuire wrote: Ummm, there are too many antecedents in the preceding paragraphs for me to parse precisely what you mean by "it". But anyone who signed up with MSDN (actually, I believe they called it the "Developer Library") back then might have the "it" if it's software you're thinking of. MS was in the habit of distributing just about everything that was available just for the asking. Not at all like the situation today, where MS has turned the Developer Network into a money-making venture. Back in the day, it was my impression that it was a money-loser whose primary goal was expanding the reach of Microsoft products. Cheers, Chuck

On 7/4/07 08:42, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: Any NT4.0 Media will install on Alpha, MIPS, PPC etc. (Well, I can confirm that the PPC one will, anyway, and there are Alpha and MIPS folders there in addition to the usual i386). -Austin.

I have a copy of Visual Studio 5 for PPC laying around somewhere. On 4/6/07, r.stricklin <bear at typewritten.org> wrote:

--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: IBM produced a PPC based coprocessor if that's the correct term for the AS400. O man I knew it would also supports MIPS' as someone pointed out rather late in the conversation. Here wondering if anyone ever got it running on an SGI box. Note that it's a far cry to say an OS supports a particular uP to saying it will run on such and such a box. I personally never heard of it running on a Mac or such (DEC Alphas though for sure, have to wonder if anyone else built systems around the Alpha but DEC, so if certain warez will work on a certain platform, and there's only 1 vendor supporting it, chances are it will run on that one. Logic at least would seem to dictate...). To get it to run on a particular box, wouldn't changes primarily need to be made in the HAL? Adding driver support to NT is a bit more excruciating then say to Win95, otherwise we would have seen USB support, though I thought I heard there was talk of addding such capability in a service pack. ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/

On 6/4/07 21:16, "Ensor" <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk> wrote: 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.