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    From Thomas Hauber@thauber@socal.rr.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, April 07, 2006 21:26:19
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    Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?
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  • From Paul Frankenstein@X@x.x to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, April 07, 2006 17:32:40
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    In article <%NAZf.23572$WK1.18213@tornado.socal.rr.com>,
    Thomas Hauber <thauber@socal.rr.com> wrote:
    * Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?

    Won't ever happen, for a vast number of reasons, perhaps the most important being that there is no substantive demand for such a thing.
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  • From 42@nospam@nospam.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, April 07, 2006 21:42:06
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    In article <%NAZf.23572$WK1.18213@tornado.socal.rr.com>,
    thauber@socal.rr.com says...
    Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?

    A G5 isn't going to boot Windows even if they did.
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  • From G.T.@getnews1@dslextreme.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, April 07, 2006 14:53:22
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    "Thomas Hauber" <thauber@socal.rr.com> wrote in message news:%NAZf.23572$WK1.18213@tornado.socal.rr.com...
    Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?

    Not until XP is ported to PPC.

    Greg


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  • From Ilgaz Ocal@ilgaz_ocal@yahoo.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 01:17:18
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2006-04-08 00:26:19 +0300, Thomas Hauber <thauber@socal.rr.com> said:

    Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?

    Oh it must be the fact that it is "universal binary". It has NO USE on
    G5 of course.

    If you want to "online partition" your drives, e.g. without formatting.
    There is "iPartition" and "Disk Studio", both available on
    versiontracker. As iPartition also comes with "iDefrag Lite", I suggest
    it in case Micromat one (studio) does not defrag. It is a must to
    "defrag" for such thing.

    I mean, if you want to experiment Linux etc.

    Ilgaz

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  • From Davoud@star@sky.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, April 07, 2006 18:20:10
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    Thomas Hauber wrote:

    Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?

    The purpose of Boot Camp is to enable Windows XP to *boot* on Intel
    chips in a Mac, Q.E.D. it *cannot* work on Power PC Macs.

    Davoud

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  • From tacit@tacitr@aol.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, April 07, 2006 22:52:36
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    In article <%NAZf.23572$WK1.18213@tornado.socal.rr.com>,
    Thomas Hauber <thauber@socal.rr.com> wrote:

    Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?

    This would only work if Microsoft re-wrote Windows to run on a PowerPC processor chip.

    Boot Camp is not an emulator. It works on Intel chips because Microsoft Windows was written to work on Intel chips. An Intel chip can not run
    PowerPC code and a PowerPC chip can not run Intel code without an
    emulator, and Boot Camp is not an emulator.

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  • From Paul Sture@paul.sture.nospam@hispeed.ch to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 02:22:39
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    tacit wrote:
    In article <%NAZf.23572$WK1.18213@tornado.socal.rr.com>,
    Thomas Hauber <thauber@socal.rr.com> wrote:


    Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?


    This would only work if Microsoft re-wrote Windows to run on a PowerPC processor chip.

    IIRC, NT4.0 came with PPC, Mips and Alpha support, as well as Intel
    support. The first 3 in that last died a death, leaving only Intel
    support on later releases.
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  • From Randy Howard@randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 00:31:21
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Thomas Hauber wrote
    (in article <%NAZf.23572$WK1.18213@tornado.socal.rr.com>):

    Anyone heard if Boot Camp will be ported to PowerPC macs like a G5?

    Don't be ridiculous. It's just a boot loader. No way to run XP
    (or Vista) on PPC.



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    Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
    "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those
    who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw





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  • From jeni.carson@jeni.carson@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 04:48:54
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    Boot Camp is not an emulator. It works on Intel chips because Microsoft Windows was written to work on Intel chips. An Intel chip can not run
    PowerPC code and a PowerPC chip can not run Intel code without an
    emulator, and Boot Camp is not an emulator.

    Actually XP is designed to work on chips that utilise the x86
    architecture, not necessarily those made by Intel. AMD and IBM also
    make x86 chips, among others. Sorry to be pedantic, but it's just the
    way things are.

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  • From tacit@tacitr@aol.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 19:00:40
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <1144496934.054887.23260@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
    jeni.carson@gmail.com wrote:

    Actually XP is designed to work on chips that utilise the x86
    architecture, not necessarily those made by Intel. AMD and IBM also
    make x86 chips, among others. Sorry to be pedantic, but it's just the
    way things are.

    True. However, Apple only uses Intel chips, not AMD chips or other x86
    chips. So for the purposes of discussing whether or not Boot Camp can be
    made to work on a PowerPC Mac, the distinction is between "PowerPC" and "Intel" processors rather than "PowerPC" and "x86" processors. (If Apple
    used other x86 processors in their computers, then the distinction would
    be more important.)

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