Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:13:25 -0600 (CST) | From | Jake Messinger <> | Subject | Re: Linux + Win95 simultaneously |
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On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Byron Davies wrote:
> With a dual-processor Pentium, would it be possible in principle to run > Linux and Win95 simultaneously, one on each processor?
No and WHY? > > Here's why I thought there might be a chance. For a PCI Mac, you can get a > PCI card with a Pentium running Windows. Although all I/O devices are > physically attached to the Mac, the two processors share them, including > monitor, keyboard, mouse, hard drives, diskette drive, CD-ROM, etc. On the > Windows side, the drivers are modified to invoke Mac functions for I/O via > PCI. On the Mac side, extensions are provided to listen for Windows I/O > commands and execute them on the Mac I/O devices. > > For the next step, substitute Linux on a (single processor) PCI Pentium for > the Mac. The same PCI board could be made to work by emulating Windows I/O > in Linux, instead of in MacOS. > > Supposing we have that working, now substitute a dual-processor Pentium for > the two Pentiums linked by PCI, and substitute the memory bus for the PCI > bus. Allocate different regions in memory for Windows and for Linux, and > have the Windows drivers communicate through shared memory rather than > through PCI. > > With suitable support in Linux, could this work?
Why not just have 2 or 3 separate machines NFS mounting each other?
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