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Technically, yes. But me thinks reality is a bit different. NT has had the HAL for a while, as you'll recall originally there was an x86 version of NT and a Alpha version. Of course support for Alpha ended with NT 4.0. When it was available, there were applications that had to have hardware specific versions. Charles > -----Original Message----- > From: Urbanek, Marty [mailto:Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:02 PM > To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: Re: i5....continues... > > > I've wondered the same thing about running Linux on iSeries > and people seem > to like that. > > As far as the emulation goes, isn't Windows' Hardware > Abstraction Layer > similar to our MI, so that all you would need is a PowerPC > version of HAL > (and of course, to address the GUI issue you pointed out)? > > -Marty > > ------------------------------ > date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:42:30 -0500 (CDT) > from: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > subject: Re: i5....continues... > > ...If they ran it in emulation to keep software compatibility, the > performance would suffer to the point where it would not make > ANY sense > for anyone to run it. Why pay $100000 to run Windows slower > than you can on > a $500 box?... > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion > (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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