Re: [Semi-off topic] Next PowerPC To Support Multiple OS's?

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From: Helpful Harry (helpful_harry_at_nom.de.plume.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:01:30 +1300

In article <32tqneF3oibbkU1@individual.net>, Michael Koenig
<mikenospam@email.de> wrote:

> Helpful Harry wrote:
> > I wonder how this news from MacRumors.com will affect Virtual PC? Maybe
> > a future version won't be an emulator at all, but simply a version of
> > Windows that runs on PowerPC processors.
> >
> > Next PowerPC To Support Multiple OS's?
> > --------------------------------------
<SNIP>
>
> Unless you're talking about a PPC version of Windows,

Well that IS one example I gave. :o)

> and there acutally
> is one of NT4, and Microsoft will have some kind of Windows running on
> PPC again because of the next Xbox.

Yep, Microsoft have already shipped PowerMac G5s to their XBox
developers, but I have no idea what they running ... other than
reportedly NOT Mac OS X.

> But even if you have that system,
> you simply won't be able to find any software to run on it, so what good
> could it be?

The PPC version of Windows "simply" needs to convert software calls on
the fly. With the OS itself running natively that MIGHT make VirtualPC
perform better, but I'm not sure how interconnected Windows
applications are with the OS (unlike the Mac which has it's system
toolbox routines).

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

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