maciNTosh: PowerPC Windows NT ported to Power Macintosh systems

Posted by ketralnis@reddit | programming | View on Reddit | 5 comments

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This is super awesome, especially given NT is unicode compliant and a good bit lighter than a lot of Linux with complete unicode support making it a reasonable environment for turning these machines into a well featured remote terminal for modern machines.

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LightStruk@reddit

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This is an astonishing achievement. New bootloader, new chipset drivers, new ADB driver, new framebuffer driver... just imagine if you could show this to someone in 2000, running on a brand new PowerMac G4.

I wonder how badly they wish NT4 PPC got past SP2. There's a lot of needed features, bugfixes, and security patches in SP6.

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Dyolf_Knip@reddit

My high school in 1997 started a citrix thin client server (basically remote desktop), which could be connected to from pretty much anything. So we'd have old IBM 386's, Mac LCs, etc apparently running NT 4.0. Was a great way to get more life out of ancient hardware.

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Leverkaas2516@reddit

"Power Macintosh... Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time"