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OS/2 - Technical => Setup & Installation => Topic started by: BookWorm on 2009.11.29, 17:26:34

Title: OS/2 for MIPS?
Post by: BookWorm on 2009.11.29, 17:26:34
I have an IBM WorkPad Z50 Mobile Companion, a subnotebook (not a useless "netbook") with an NEC MIPS VR4121 CPU and Windows CE in ROM. I haven't tried installing it yet, but I have a Windows NT4 CD with versions for several processors including MIPS.

What about OS/2? I know IBM sold it for PPC, but was there a MIPS version? What about other non-intel CPU's?
Title: Re: OS/2 for MIPS?
Post by: neozeed on 2009.11.29, 19:15:25
Windows NT was the OS/2 3.0 NT version that was to be portable to RISC cpu's.....

There is a version of Qemu floating around that can run the MIPS version of Windows NT, but it's.... more of a 'wow' interesting thing then something of real use...

But I still enjoy compiling stuff with VC for the MIPS.
Title: Re: OS/2 for MIPS?
Post by: BookWorm on 2009.11.29, 19:49:24
Can you decompile intel stuff and recompile it for MIPS?
Title: Re: OS/2 for MIPS?
Post by: oli on 2009.12.01, 20:13:34
No, even Linux is troublesome with MIPS due to lack of effort, Mandrake is the most workable solution but I am not sure it there is an official port out, or if you have to pull it from a CVS, some chinese distributions work well with some 32bit MIPS variants due to the Loongson processor, but mostly it is just mehhh

I would try Netbsd if I were you, I think there is actually some support for this model

And you mean the Z50 do you not?
Title: Re: OS/2 for MIPS?
Post by: lpino on 2009.12.01, 20:48:48
Quote from: BookWorm on 2009.11.29, 17:26:34
I have an IBM WorkPad Z50 Mobile Companion, a subnotebook (not a useless "netbook") with an NEC MIPS VR4121 CPU and Windows CE in ROM. I haven't tried installing it yet, but I have a Windows NT4 CD with versions for several processors including MIPS.

What about OS/2? I know IBM sold it for PPC, but was there a MIPS version? What about other non-intel CPU's?
What would be more interesting would be a QEMU running OS/2 for PPC. There was an effort to do such thing. I even got Linux installed just to compile it and I was able to start booting the CD image. I still have some references of that work if anybody is willing to pick it up.

Bye