On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:57, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:36 +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote: > > One thing that would be cool - a laptop based on one of these power5 > > CPUs. It wouldn't be capable of running windows! > > It could *almost* run Windows™. The dev-kit for the XBox 360 is a G5 Mac > running a modified version of NT-4. The chips are almost the same
And if Apple had the self-same sort of business ethic Microsoft displays so clearly, Apple would be suing so fast that Microsoft's feet would never touch the ground from the time they get the summons to the time they cough up big time! > (Power4 rather than a PowerPC), the GPU is very similar (an ATI), and > the OS is quite close to what is in the XBox (the actual XBox 360 uses a > heavily modified version of Windows 2000, rather than NT.) > > If you threw the Power5 into 32-bit mode it may just start… However, in > reality Windows will not boot on a Power5 :) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
