[X4U] OS History (was: "Backwards Compatibility")

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:01 PM -0400 6/24/08, Neil wrote:
>On Jun 22, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>Another interesting tidbit of OS history would be the CHRP PPC's 
>>that IBM and Apple were working on in the '95 timeframe.  Had the 
>>idea worked out, they'd have run OS/2, AIX, System 7 (Mac OS), and 
>>maybe others all at the same time.
>
>As I recall, Windows NT was supposed to run on that platform too.

I think you are right, I was thinking Windows fit in there somewhere, 
but for some reason wasn't thinking of WinNT.  At the time it ran on 
x86, Alpha, MIPS, and IIRC PPC.

Zane


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