[openbeos] Re: PPC/x86 topic

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:13:46 -0600

> no

well, yes. But it would overload the kernel with code from, say, Bochs, 
and slow things to an absolute crawl. So this would be a bad idea (tm).
-Nathan

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Sowsy" <dsowsy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 6:54 AM
> Subject: [openbeos] PPC/x86 topic
> 
> 
> > 
> > At the risk of starting a topic that is shunned to Glass 
> > Elevator (whatever/wherever that is)  <Where's Charlie, Willie
> > and the Oompah Loompahs to decide this?>
> > 
> > Is there any way that we can currently get BeOS x86 binaries to 
> > load and
> > run on PPC machines? Is it less trouble to approach the PPC 
> > compatibility
> > this way? (x86 elf loader for PPC)
> > 
> > 
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> > David Sowsy    .    /|\  BeOS Rebel and Coder   .  *  .
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> 


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