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   linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:06 JST linear cannon

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   • Growlph Ibex

   @growlph@greywolf.social see also the labeling on the NT 3.51 and 4.0 discs
   
   "Disc contains code to run on WIndows NT-compatible x86, Pentium™️, Mips ®️ R4x00, Alpha AXP ™️, and PowerPC ™️ systems."

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:09 JST linear cannon

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     @growlph@greywolf.social photos showing this, taken from my retail box copy of NT 3.51, and the hardware compatibility list from 3.5 (which didn't support PowerPC yet)

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     Growlph Ibex (growlph@greywolf.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:11 JST Growlph Ibex

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     @linear Wait, there was an official PowerPC version of NT?!

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:11 JST linear cannon

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     @growlph@greywolf.social Windows NT was originally designed and written on Intel i860 and MIPS R4000 processors, and was ported to x86, because they wanted a portable OS like Unix.
     
     by the time of Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0, it supported x86, DEC Alpha, MIPS R4x00, and PowerPC out of the box. retail and OEM discs alike supported all of these architectures. you did not need a special version, just a computer that had the right firmware and drivers.

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:12 JST linear cannon

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     @growlph@greywolf.social far from it, this is a G3/ppc750. the 601 was mostly only used in the really early Nubus PowerPC macs, and upgrade cards for 68k macs
     
     this works because the developer i mentioned earlier in this thread wrote an implementation of the ARC firmware that the PowerPC version of NT requires, that works on some powermacs, and then proceeded to use the NT DDKs to write a HAL that supports the platform
     
     this was never meant to run on here, the PowerPC version of NT only supported a handful of IBM RS6000 machines - but that doesn't mean it can't be made to work with a bit of elbow grease

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     Growlph Ibex (growlph@greywolf.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:13 JST Growlph Ibex

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     @linear Cool! The space clam iBook was a PowerPC 601, right?

     How exactly does this work?

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:15 JST linear cannon

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     success
     
     this is weird, and cursed, and i like it

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:16 JST linear cannon

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     anyway here's my ibook
     
     i had the idea for doing this in 2019 and had briefly explored actually doing it but i really did not want to write an ARC firmware from scratch
     
     thankfully @Rairii@labyrinth.zone had the same idea and went and did the whole thing and now i don't have to
     
     ... but i am now considering a port to a different system that was never meant to run NT

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 12:33:18 JST linear cannon

     girls should be allowed to install Windows NT on devices it was never meant for