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?
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.
Can you decompile intel stuff and recompile it for MIPS?
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?
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.
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