Halt and Catch Fire
Is the show messing with us? A Sparc station running Excel? :)
I haven't seen the episode, but the obvious thought would be Excel for Win 3.1 under WABI or else Windows running on a SunPC or SunPCI card. On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 7:32 PM, John Heritage via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Is the show messing with us? A Sparc station running Excel? :)
I don't know for Sun but I knew there was a way to run Mac Binaries of MS products on SGIs. I think they did it for Sun as well. On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 7:53 PM, John Ruschmeyer via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I haven't seen the episode, but the obvious thought would be Excel for Win 3.1 under WABI or else Windows running on a SunPC or SunPCI card.
I don't know for Sun but I knew there was a way to run Mac Binaries of MS products on SGIs. I think they did it for Sun as well.
I have never heard of this? Apple A/UX could run Mac stuff under their UNIX AFAIK. I heard rumors there is a version of NT that runs on SGI Indigo with Entry graphics or something but only heard rumors of it.
On 08/21/2017 11:35 AM, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I don't know for Sun but I knew there was a way to run Mac Binaries of MS products on SGIs. I think they did it for Sun as well.
I have never heard of this? Apple A/UX could run Mac stuff under their UNIX AFAIK.
I heard rumors there is a version of NT that runs on SGI Indigo with Entry graphics or something but only heard rumors of it.
Not sure this helps. What little I recall of the time (I didn't work with Sun then) the ABI could run a lot of other OS applications. I know that at one point you could run the Linux apps on the Sun ABI. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 08/21/2017 11:35 AM, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I don't know for Sun but I knew there was a way to run Mac Binaries of MS products on SGIs. I think they did it for Sun as well.
I have never heard of this? Apple A/UX could run Mac stuff under their UNIX AFAIK.
I heard rumors there is a version of NT that runs on SGI Indigo with Entry graphics or something but only heard rumors of it.
MAE. I use to use it on Sun boxes back in the '90's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Application_Environment I seem to remember NT running on an Indigo 2 with Extreme Graphics, but my memory could be wrong. I think I saw a picture of it once. But could be faulty memory what I actually saw. - Derrik -- -- Derrik Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE dwalker@doomd.net "Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak
On 08/21/2017 01:07 PM, Ethan wrote:
I seem to remember NT running on an Indigo 2 with Extreme Graphics, but my memory could be wrong.
Not likely I don't think? More likely to find Windows NT running on Decstations (Multia) and the MIPS RISCStations I think?
It would be a trophy to find, that's for sure!
If I remember correctly, It was experimental, just a proof of concept. Never intended to be a shipping product, just a "can we make this work" to show how portable NT is. - Derrik -- -- Derrik Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE dwalker@doomd.net "Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak
SGI made some Windows based workstations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Derrik Walker v2.0 via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I seem to remember NT running on an Indigo 2 with Extreme Graphics, but my memory could be wrong.
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