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I did install SP5(put the SP5 installer in C:WINNT35 and ran it).

That is the only thing I know of that Office 97 will complain about on NT 3.51.

How to install SP5 It was a.exe file that makes a lot of other files, I put it in my WINNT35 folder so It would put all the files in there.

If it was me, Id start again and reinstall NT 3.51 back to clean up the files there.

The SP5 EXE file is to be extracted into its own directory first (i.e.

C:TEMP). With all the files extracted there, you need to run UPDATE.EXE.

This will copy the files over to the correct directories and install SP5 proper.

You can confirm by using the WINVER command or just viewing Program Managers About dialog box.

Both are near-identical machines with different faceplates and boot screens.

When the PowerPC platform was new, IBM (just like a few other vendors, notably DEC) had grand plans to replace the x86 PC clone market (they helped create) with PowerPC.

Of course thanks to various factors such as Apples refusal to play along, the launch of the Pentium Pro CPU (and the later Itanium disaster), and high cost, this plan never ended up panning out.

Later IBM PReP machines were designed for AIX and Linux use only, and they were sold as regular old RS6000 computers.

In the guest post about Solaris for PowerPC I made, I talked about the history of IBMs PReP platform some more so you should go read that post if you want an initial rundown on PRePs flaws and history.

But I have learned a bit about the Windows NT port for PowerPC, and I discovered a rare version of it as well.

By now everyone with a PReP machine (or PPC Thinkpad) has run Windows NT 4.0 on it, and if PReP machines are emulated its guaranteed this will be the second most run OS on it aside from AIX of course.

With how rare PReP machines are and their high prices on eBay when they do turn up for sale (or their tendency to be snapped up fast), I think its fitting to write perhaps the most in depth look at PReP hardware that anyone has seen.

Featuring HALs for most of the early PReP machines including the Moto Powerstack, the rare FirePower machines built for NT ( which used Open Firmware ), the Power Series 605070 (and maybe 7248), and the unobtanium IBM 6030, its pretty much what youd expect for a first release for PPC.

Its a polished, solid OS thats arguably faster than NT4 on the same machine.

Aside from the red boot screen (on my Weitek GPU), its pretty much Windows NT 3.51 but on the PowerPC.

Its like running NT 3.51 on MIPS or Alpha, its interesting but more software will likely run on 4 anyhow (especially on Alpha).

It simply reports PowerPC and what machine youre running it on.

It does not tell you that youre running it on a 601, it tells you that its running on an IBM-6015.

It runs in little-endian mode (one of the few PPC OSes to), it has 16 bit Windows emulation thats slow, and it needs specific PReP machines to run.

Windows Nt 3.51 Series Of Articles

One interesting series of articles about the behind the scenes of the port worth reading is the Raymond Chen article series, and this discusses the quirks of programming a PowerPC 60x CPU in little-endian mode as well.

It can be installed with the same ARC disks NT4 uses, and of course the same SMS and firmware disks will work.

In fact QEMU at one time was capable of booting the IBM firmware image from these disks.

There was actually a limited release of Windows NT 3.5, its been dumped, and it is a real operating system.

It also requires a very specific model of RS6000 to work, and one with a interesting history giving it a unique place among the PReP machines.

While I was unable to make it work in the end, I did discover and document a lot of interesting features of PReP machines.

This is my RS6000 40p, a machine that was given several brand names by IBM and used as a development platform for PReP software and operating system ports.

This is also perhaps the most historically significant RS6000 model from the era.

While it wasnt the first PowerPC RS6000 (that honor goes to the 250), it was the first to use the PCI and ISA busses and it was a few months ahead of both the initial PCI PowerMacs and other PReP boxes.

Its also one of the few true bi-endian machines as just like other PReP machines, the MIPS Magnum, HPs Integrity, and modern Power8 machines it has OSes for both endians available.

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