Power PC????

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue May 11 08:07:41 1999

At 09:08 PM 5/10/99 -0500, George wrote:


>Yes NT4.0 does support the PPC. Can't remember if NT5 is
>supposed to. I vaguely remember that it was, but my memories
>been slipping lately ...
>
>I have a Motorola PPC (604/100) machine designed specifically to
>run NT, it's a CHRP/PREP/WATEVR machine that was supposed
>to, eventually, be able to run either NT or MacOS. It's in quite a
>sad state right now (I'm not even sure exactly where it is right now).
>
>I also have another PPC machine (again 604/100) made by a
>company called FirePower that was formed by a bunch of old NeXT
>guys (the ones that were working on the multiprocessor 88100
>NeXT box :( ) and eventually bought by Motorola. I currently have it
>running NT4.0 and SQLServer 6.5, both native. Cool little box,
>uses OpenFirmware (as does the other Mot).

   That sounds like it might be what we have. It's in a Motorola box.
What is OpenFirmware? I've never heard of it. They are 604/100s.

>
>Perhaps the DataServer machine is such a CHRP/PREP beastie?
>
>You can run the disk administrator application (in the administrative
>tools folder) to find out about the drives.

   I didn't see an administrative tools folder.

   Joe
Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 08:07:41 BST