Regrads
Joerg
Byron Davies wrote:
>
> With a dual-processor Pentium, would it be possible in principle to run
> Linux and Win95 simultaneously, one on each processor?
>
> 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?