I have Virtual PC 3.0 for the PowerMac. Alas, I’m on an Ibook and
can’t figure out how to get it on the system. Any thoughts?
Install Windows 95 first, then from Windows 98 install QRTP, I’m
not convince this is going to work though.
“Rob Rodgers” <knave@acm.org> wrote in message
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I have Virtual PC 3.0 for the PowerMac. Alas, I’m on an Ibook and
can’t figure out how to get it on the system. Any thoughts?
In article <39db6bdc.1680175@east.usenetserver.com>, knave@acm.org
wrote:
I have Virtual PC 3.0 for the PowerMac. Alas, I’m on an Ibook and
can’t figure out how to get it on the system. Any thoughts?
I also have Virtual PC 3.0 for the PowerMac. I’ve successfully installed
RtP on the system. Feel free to mail me for details or other questions.
The installation went relatively smoothly. The only real hiccup I ran
into was configuring the video card. The trick there is that the S3 Trio
driver in RtP did not configure the S3 Trio in VPC correctly. Use a VESA
mode instead of an S3 Trio mode and you should be good (I’ve succesfully
used several of the VESA modes in my installation).
There are other things I’ve discovered about making VPC as snappy as
possible. In my installation, I boot RtP with DMA disabled. In my VPC, I
turn off MMX emulation and turn on idle time processing. I also choose a
screen mode that my Mac can emulate directly and I use VPC in full
screen mode.
Hope this helps,
Eric
hi,
i dont think its a good idea to install RTP on top of something like
PowerPC. if you just want to sample the system, the fine. but if you wnat
to do real development, then you will run into problems. cause the QNX
kernel uses intel assembly extensions extensively to achieve maximum
perfomance. this will hinder its usage in something like virualPC which
loosely emulates X86 processors.
In article <berdahl-0FD2FE.11331406102000@inn.qnx.com>,
Eric Berdahl <berdahl@serendipity.org> wrote:
In article <> 39db6bdc.1680175@east.usenetserver.com> >, > knave@acm.org
wrote:I have Virtual PC 3.0 for the PowerMac. Alas, I’m on an Ibook and
can’t figure out how to get it on the system. Any thoughts?I also have Virtual PC 3.0 for the PowerMac. I’ve successfully installed
RtP on the system. Feel free to mail me for details or other questions.The installation went relatively smoothly. The only real hiccup I ran
into was configuring the video card. The trick there is that the S3 Trio
driver in RtP did not configure the S3 Trio in VPC correctly. Use a VESA
mode instead of an S3 Trio mode and you should be good (I’ve succesfully
used several of the VESA modes in my installation).There are other things I’ve discovered about making VPC as snappy as
possible. In my installation, I boot RtP with DMA disabled. In my VPC, I
turn off MMX emulation and turn on idle time processing. I also choose a
screen mode that my Mac can emulate directly and I use VPC in full
screen mode.Hope this helps,
Eric
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hi,
i dont think its a good idea to install RTP on top of something like
PowerPC. if you just want to sample the system, the fine. but if you wnat
to do real development, then you will run into problems. cause the QNX
kernel uses intel assembly extensions extensively to achieve maximum
perfomance. this will hinder its usage in something like virualPC which
loosely emulates X86 processors.
Where did you get this piece of mis-information from?? -->> “the QNX kernel
uses intel assembly extensions extensively to achieve maximum perfomance.”
The Help information in QNX RTP specifically states that almost all of the
kernel is written in C!!
Secondly, the Neutrino kernel does not need to run on a “emulated x86” on
the PPC, they already have kernels for many CPUs that run natively on that
CPU - PPC, MIPS, ARM, etc.,
The real issue is for all of the support programs (for development) and
drivers for the hardware
I agree that it is not a good idea to run RTP in Virtual PC, but definitely
not for the reasons you give!
I think in the situation the original author describes, performance and
hardware compatibility (between drivers and emulation) are the only real
issues.
In article <> berdahl-0FD2FE.11331406102000@inn.qnx.com> >,
Eric Berdahl <> berdahl@serendipity.org> > wrote:
In article <> 39db6bdc.1680175@east.usenetserver.com> >, > knave@acm.org
wrote:I have Virtual PC 3.0 for the PowerMac. Alas, I’m on an Ibook and
can’t figure out how to get it on the system. Any thoughts?I also have Virtual PC 3.0 for the PowerMac. I’ve successfully installed
RtP on the system. Feel free to mail me for details or other questions.The installation went relatively smoothly. The only real hiccup I ran
into was configuring the video card. The trick there is that the S3 Trio
driver in RtP did not configure the S3 Trio in VPC correctly. Use a VESA
mode instead of an S3 Trio mode and you should be good (I’ve succesfully
used several of the VESA modes in my installation).There are other things I’ve discovered about making VPC as snappy as
possible. In my installation, I boot RtP with DMA disabled. In my VPC, I
turn off MMX emulation and turn on idle time processing. I also choose a
screen mode that my Mac can emulate directly and I use VPC in full
screen mode.Hope this helps,
Eric
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