[WinMac] Re: Macs doing other things

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 08 Sep 1998 09:17:09 -0400

        Good morning!

        This person could also be referring to running apps on a central NT server
with Citrix MetaFrame. All that goes over the network are the screen draw
commands; but the actual processing is done on the central NT box. And Yes,
there is a MacOS client.

        MetaFrame is being replaced by Windows NT Terminal Server edition.

        Essentially, both of these products turn any desktop computer into a
semi-smart terminal... That is why it may pay to dust off those old LCII's
sitting in the closet.

 -------

        On another front, you CAN boot a MacOS 8 CD on an IBM RS/6000 -- Surprise!
It turns out that the OS8 CD was also CHRP-compatible.

        The one question yet to be answered is if NT will run on the iMac, since
the iMac is Mac ROMless... Unfortunately, M$ stopped suporting the PowerPC
version of NT after NT4's Service Pack 2.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 08:18 PM 9/6/98 -0400, Alex wrote:
>>I briefly meet somebody the other day a a computer event who claimed
>>that at his work he was using old MACS LC11's etc to run successfully on
>>a NT network, I think he was talking about running NT on Macs instead of
>>the good old Mac OS.
>>Could he be doing this?
>>How?
>
>No, unless they have virtual PC or a PC emulation card. Are you sure he
>wasn't referring to have them all on the NT network with Services for
>Macintosh turned on?
>
>I even tried loading NT on a Mac (it WILL run on certain PowerPC
>environments) but part of the Mac OS is in ROM, meaning that there is no
>way of fooling NT into thinking it's one of the poewrpc platforms on the
>Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), unless you're using emulation such as
>Virtual PC or a card...
>
>Alex Dearden
>pata@doglover.com
>
>
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