Re: Linux + Win95 simultaneously
ferrari@energy.it
Tue, 4 Nov 1997 03:05:34 +0100
At 13.24 03/11/97 -0700, you wrote:
>With a dual-processor Pentium, would it be possible in principle to run
>Linux and Win95 simultaneously, one on each processor?
>
>Here's why I thought there might be a chance. For a PCI Mac, you can get a
>PCI card with a Pentium running Windows. Although all I/O devices are
>physically attached to the Mac, the two processors share them, including
>monitor, keyboard, mouse, hard drives, diskette drive, CD-ROM, etc. On the
>Windows side, the drivers are modified to invoke Mac functions for I/O via
>PCI. On the Mac side, extensions are provided to listen for Windows I/O
>commands and execute them on the Mac I/O devices.
>
>For the next step, substitute Linux on a (single processor) PCI Pentium for
>the Mac. The same PCI board could be made to work by emulating Windows I/O
>in Linux, instead of in MacOS.
>
>Supposing we have that working, now substitute a dual-processor Pentium for
>the two Pentiums linked by PCI, and substitute the memory bus for the PCI
>bus. Allocate different regions in memory for Windows and for Linux, and
>have the Windows drivers communicate through shared memory rather than
>through PCI.
>
>With suitable support in Linux, could this work?
>
>
Linux AND win95 IN a macintosh ?!?!?!?!?!?!? Good shake !
These are the results of the blue ribbon campaign.....
Macintosh itself have many survival problems and soon will be in the
matter of WWF, don't be cruel.
Pino Massignan
ferrari@energy.it