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    SubjectRe: Linux + Win95 simultaneously
    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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