[wplug] Linux and laptops, archatechure

[Jonathan S. Billings]

On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 09:18  AM, Logan wrote:

>> With regard to the different architectures: Linux has been ported to 
>> the
>> PowerPC chip, which allows it to run natively, whereas VPC (I'm 
>> assuming)
>> has to emulate an entire x86 system, because Windows hasn't been 
>> ported to
>> the PowerPC.
>
> according to operatingsystems.net, Windows NT Server v4 was ported to 
> the
> Power PC, as well as SGI and Alpha hardware.
> not that you'd want to shell out the thousand dollars for Windows on Mac

There's a big difference between "Ported to PowerPC" and "Available for 
the Mac".  Don't expect to ever see Windows NT for anything other than 
intel.

> -Logan
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   Jonathan Billings
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