Comments on: Word & Excel for MIPS

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 22:48:01 +0000

Interesting that they chose to port Office 4.2 instead of Office 95 to PowerPC

By: GL1zdA

GL1zdA — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:23:54 +0000

Nice find. Now I’m curious. The 2 CDs have file dates later then the Office 4.2 for NT CD. Anyone knows, what was the product, that included these two?

By: GL1zdA

GL1zdA — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:19:54 +0000

In reply to raijinkai.

The RS/6000 43P-140 was also PReP with OpenFirmware, but someone managed to install NT just using the ARC floppy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0fJpd__1K8 . This didn’t work on my 43P-140, but I think my CPU was a different one (mine was the 332 MHz version). I tried using the veener loader, but it wouldn’t work.

By: womp womp

womp womp — Thu, 25 May 2023 13:10:08 +0000

In reply to neozeed. and excel!

By: raijinkai

raijinkai — Thu, 25 May 2023 07:27:36 +0000

In reply to Logout.

About your article on the Bull Estrella.
Actually there are some of them which came with OpenFirmware instead PPCbug.

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=863851#p863851
We tried to make NT VEENER loader to boot the Bull Estrella, but it wasn’t possible due HAL mismatching/incompatibility (the PowerStack HAL has no idea of OpenFirmware and VEENER memory structures, and the bundled OpenFimware HAL (HALFIRE.dll) knows nothing about the PowerStack chipset).

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 24 May 2023 22:49:17 +0000

In reply to Logout. yes! I was surprised this one surfaced, so I had to get the word out asap!

By: Logout

Logout — Wed, 24 May 2023 19:34:12 +0000

PowerPC Excel? Now is my Estrella finally going to have something to do!

http://vivapowerpc.eu/20230130-1800_Windows_NT_on_Bull_Estrella