On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:36:35 -0400, Emmanuel Skoufos <skoufs at minerva.cis.yale.edu> wrote:
>>If you can wait a bit (6-9 months), the new PPCP models of Macintosh
>would probably make the question of the "platform" obsolete.
You can currently run MacOS, two flavors of Unix (MachTen and Linux),
and DOS/Windows 3.1/Windows 95 on *existing* powerpcs. You may even
be able to run AIX - I am not sure. So why wait six months?
>Another advantage of the PPCP is that you don't need "dual" memory
>modules for separate processors that run separate OSs.
I have no idea what you mean here. I can currently run umpteen
different OSes on my PC (DOS, WindowsNT, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD/NetBSD,
Solaris x86 etc. etc. etc.) all using the same processor and memory.
Later,
Ashok
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Department of Oncology University of Wisconsin-Madison
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