Re: i5....continues...

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For all intents and purposes, I believe that is correct.  The problem is,
having the ability to build the HAL.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:02 PM
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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