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by **Rod Roar** » Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

-- Rod

by **Tomasz Koryck** » Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
> each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

> -- Rod

NO. Not in any OS I heard of/can imagine. You have two CPUs, but
everything else is single.
It IS possible (and has been done), but not in x86 world. But, if
You're ready to pay for UNICOS or MVS, well,.....

by **Ben Barret** » Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Try a dual boot. I "doubt" you could hack ms-doze and linux to run at the
_SAME TIME_ on a single motherboard. MAYBE two motherboards with some
shared resources. Are you a hardware person? or is this an ego-dream?

If you want 'doze&linux at the same time, get two cheap machines!

In Lake'ch, my kin...
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Quote:> Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
> each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

> -- Rod

by **Adam Wrigh** » Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:00:00

No, not on the same machine. One CPU is the slave of the other.
If you must run Winblows/Windoze get another computer.

Adam

> Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
> each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

> -- Rod

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by **John Petter Reinerts** » Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
>each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

>-- Rod

You cannot run two OSs simultanously.
You have to boot one at the time.

But you can have several operative systems installed on the same
machine.

I have now three: win95, Linux RedHat 5.1 and winnt 4.0.
Nt's bootloader gives me the choice which OS to boot.
The different OSs are installed in different partitions.

My system has two processors and two monitors....
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by **Michael Fauro** » Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:00:00

:>
:> Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
:> each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?
:>
:> -- Rod

: NO. Not in any OS I heard of/can imagine. You have two CPUs, but
: everything else is single.
: It IS possible (and has been done), but not in x86 world. But, if
: You're ready to pay for UNICOS or MVS, well,.....

I may be mistaken on the CPU architecture, but it's my understanding
Sequent has a box that will run both Unix and NT at the same time.
I know Sequent has used Intel processors in the past, I'm not sure if
they still do or not. Of course this box from Sequent probably costs
about six figures also. :)

by **James Youngm** » Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
> each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

It is not. At least unless you count running one inside the other
using WINE, DosEmu or BOCHS.
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by **Dana Levin** » Sat, 31 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I believe that there are/were macintosh systems with PC processor cards that
could run both MACOS and DOS and switch between them on the fly.

by **Iain R** » Tue, 03 Nov 1998 04:00:00

>:>
>:> Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
>:> each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?
>:>
>:> -- Rod

>: NO. Not in any OS I heard of/can imagine. You have two CPUs, but
>: everything else is single.
>: It IS possible (and has been done), but not in x86 world. But, if
>: You're ready to pay for UNICOS or MVS, well,.....

>I may be mistaken on the CPU architecture, but it's my understanding
>Sequent has a box that will run both Unix and NT at the same time.
>I know Sequent has used Intel processors in the past, I'm not sure if
>they still do or not. Of course this box from Sequent probably costs
>about six figures also. :)

The sun starfire will allow you to run 2 versions of solaris
concurrently and dynamically allocate cpu's (and hot swap cpu's for
that matter) of course if you could afford one of those you could
afford a second PC.

by **stupid_dogg** » Tue, 03 Nov 1998 04:00:00

I don't think an existing available machine can do this. From hardware
design point of view, it is possible. If you run two OS in the same
machine, the RAM must be allocated to each OS independently.
It is no point to run two OS in one machine with 2 CPU. Why don't use
2 machine instead?

Quote:>Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
>each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

>-- Rod

by **Randy Field** » Tue, 03 Nov 1998 04:00:00

> Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
> each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

> -- Rod

One of the few cool things SCO does is allow Windows95 to run as a
process under Openserver 5.0. It works like a charm on the server at
work. It really runs most anything. They may even give the OS away for
personal use. I still prefer linux as SCO has other problems... I like
having source code at my perusal.

Randy

by **Rod Roar** » Tue, 03 Nov 1998 04:00:00

>I don't think an existing available machine can do this. From hardware
>design point of view, it is possible. If you run two OS in the same
>machine, the RAM must be allocated to each OS independently.
>It is no point to run two OS in one machine with 2 CPU. Why don't use
>2 machine instead?

OK, how about one case, two motherboards? :-)

Perhaps a setup where 'doze boots up as a diskless workstation running
some X server, and with the Linux mainboard operating as a file server and
X client with no monitor. I was wondering if anyone has dome something
like this.

The goal is a cheap, integrated solution for people who want to run both
Linux and M$ apps from the same box. I guess the stickiest question is,
what (bootable) network medium makes sense?

-- Rod

by **Frank Sweetse** » Tue, 03 Nov 1998 04:00:00

Quote:stupid_doggy<at>hotmail.com (j2?a) writes:
> I don't think an existing available machine can do this. From hardware
> design point of view, it is possible. If you run two OS in the same
> machine, the RAM must be allocated to each OS independently.
> It is no point to run two OS in one machine with 2 CPU. Why don't use
> 2 machine instead?

actually, i've heard a rumor that digital unix 5.0 will have this
capability, at least one DEC hardware - not sure what kind of extra
hardware support will be needed...

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by **stupid_dogg** » Wed, 04 Nov 1998 04:00:00

It is no point to use two motherboard. :-)
If you want to run X in one and Linux file server in the other board,
why not run them at the same machine?
If you want to run some MS software, I think you could find some
emulator. I saw someone use the Win3.1 emulator on their linux (or
unix, forgot) box. I am not sure is there any 95 or 98 emulator or
not.
By the way, I think use two machines is cheaper than use one machine
with two CPU and two set of RAM. Don't expect a dual CPU can double
the speed. You may get even worse if your OS are not written to do
this job fine. I tried with my dual PPro with Windows 95 and NT. Tell
you, I could get around 0.8 to 1.5 times the speed of single CPU only.

>>I don't think an existing available machine can do this. From hardware
>>design point of view, it is possible. If you run two OS in the same
>>machine, the RAM must be allocated to each OS independently.
>>It is no point to run two OS in one machine with 2 CPU. Why don't use
>>2 machine instead?

>OK, how about one case, two motherboards? :-)

>Perhaps a setup where 'doze boots up as a diskless workstation running
>some X server, and with the Linux mainboard operating as a file server and
>X client with no monitor. I was wondering if anyone has dome something
>like this.

>The goal is a cheap, integrated solution for people who want to run both
>Linux and M$ apps from the same box. I guess the stickiest question is,
>what (bootable) network medium makes sense?

>-- Rod

by **Harri Haata** » Wed, 04 Nov 1998 04:00:00

>> Anyone know if it's possible to run M$ Windows and Linux concurrently,
>> each with its own CPU, on any dual CPU motherboard?

>One of the few cool things SCO does is allow Windows95 to run as a
>process under Openserver 5.0. It works like a charm on the server at
>work. It really runs most anything. They may even give the OS away for
>personal use. I still prefer linux as SCO has other problems... I like
>having source code at my perusal.

AFAIK there's an x86 board for sparc and I know there are many for m68k/Amiga.
What about these? Linux?

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