NT 4.0 ON POWER PC

[Pizza]

I heard that NT 4.0 can be run on a power pc machine.
Does it include the apple's powerpc 7100? I guess that
apple's graphical bios rom need to be flashed to be
non-graphical first. But where can I get this utility?

 

[yazz]

i really dont think you can. i think you need IBM hardware, such as a RS/6000.
if someone knows where i can flash a mac powerpc hardware so i can install NT that would be cool to play around with.

 

[Wyvern]

My understanding is that only CHRP-based (Common Harware Reference Platform) PPC motherboards were able to run NT. I would be very surprised if you were able to get it to work on a 7100. Besides, I'm not even sure you can flash the BIOS on a mac... I believe all problems were/are fixed via extensions that load during boot time instead of flashing the BIOS.

 

[jsm]

When I was working at Apple, I heard of some engineers who got NT running a Motorola clone CHRP box. But, I have never actually seen it to this day.

I think you can only run NT on the IBM AIX workstations - not Mac boxes. Kind of a waste of a machine tho. AIX is so much more stable than NT.

 

[MikeyTsi]

No, the PPC version of NT 4 will not work on a Mac. Apple uses a proprietary BIOS, and doesn't work with NT. There was an early alpha version of NT5 (Windows 2000) that supposedly got around this problem, but the distro was terminated really early in development.