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PowerPC Windows NT ported to Power Macintosh systems - Wack0/maciNTosh
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What an interesting project!
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Windows NT PPC on Macs
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What an interesting project!
That's absolutely mad. Must have been fun to do.
I don't own any of the supported systems unfortunately. If they get it booting on the PDQ, I'll give it a go!
Weird. I pulled out my Lombard earlier this week for other testing. Guess that was a sign. Finally, the middle bastard child of the PowerBook G3 line gets some love.
Edit: There might even be a slight chance that XPostFacto can get this working on a beige G3. That or futzing around on the OpenFirmware prompt.
Edit: There might even be a slight chance that XPostFacto can get this working on a beige G3. That or futzing around on the OpenFirmware prompt.
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I suppose I have a reason to keep my PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics) now. 
This is so weird.
Never thought I’d suddenly want a Lombard real bad.
NT on PowerMacs is the future we were promised.
It's just that it was supposed to be PowerMacs from like 1996-97.
Very neat though, I might have to poke at this on my blue yikes g3. NT4 is already "pretty fast" on like a P/200, I bet it's great on a G3@300 or more. (Perhaps save performance penalties of basic drivers, but NT4 is pretty lite on, like, graphics acceleration in the base UI so that may not matter.)
It's just that it was supposed to be PowerMacs from like 1996-97.
Very neat though, I might have to poke at this on my blue yikes g3. NT4 is already "pretty fast" on like a P/200, I bet it's great on a G3@300 or more. (Perhaps save performance penalties of basic drivers, but NT4 is pretty lite on, like, graphics acceleration in the base UI so that may not matter.)
I’d love to see this evolve further with custom drivers, stability improvements, more supported models, etc. Most of these projects don’t go beyond proof of concept though, just gotta hope this goes further.
Ultimately, what could you do with it? I’m guessing that any contemporary Windows apps would need to be recompiled for PPC. Do any already exist?
This is really funny.
For NT on Alpha there was a dynamic recompilation thing from x86 - no idea how well it worked though or whether it made it to the PPC build.
There is an old Vogons thread talking about PPC NT stuff but sadly the archive.org link doesn’t seem to work anymore:
www.vogons.org
Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II \ VOGONS
www.vogons.org
