RE: i5....continues...

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?...
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