IBM PPC code on PPC Mac

[bunnspecial]

Hehehehe, the old Office 2004/2008 conflict!

I much prefer 2008 over 2004 but there are plenty of you 2004 guys out there still.

I'm an '08 fan myself, to the point that I still have it installed on my main MBP running Sierra . I find that I can just get stuff done faster and easier in '08.

With that said, here's the "productivity" section of my doc. I get some funny looks over this.

 

[bobesch]

While I definitely agree that the project is dead before it starts, there are specific cases where Windows x86 software would run on a PPC version of Windows. But that would require said programs to call only on API's and not make any hardware calls.

But as stated, there is no benefit to doing all the work to bring our PPC Macs to Windows NT 4. Even NT 4 x86 wasn't useful as a desktop OS when it was current.

Much desktop software wouldn't run in NT back then. It was best suited for server side software.

Today, essentially every Windows version is stemmed from the NT core. But you're not going to get today's titles to run on NT 4. Just not happening.

I'd love to put my G4 Mini back into daily use. But aside from hobby use or using the titles from back then, it's prime has passed.

Personally, I'm considering MorphOS. But I haven't really convinced myself that I enjoyed Amiga enough to make it a daily use platform either.

I'm perfectly happy running emulated Win2000pro (which is basicly WinNT) with VirtualPC7 so I would spent any effort to port NT to PPC.

 

[MagicBoy]

yeah, programs that purely call APIs could run, but still, programs that use only NT 4.0 era APIs at this point are even more outdated than any software that could run on OS X Leopard or even Tiger.

Way more outdated. NT4 era software is ~ Mac OS 8 era!