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From: shel@cfisun.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Does MS-Windows run on the SunIPC board?
Message-ID: <163@cfisun.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Jan-87 12:10:50 EST
Article-I.D.: cfisun.163
Posted: Sun Jan 25 12:10:50 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Jan-87 01:43:55 EST
References: <781@orcisi.UUCP>
Reply-To: shel@cfisun.UUCP (Sheldon Laube -CFI-)
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Organization: Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, Mass.
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In article <781@orcisi.UUCP> michael@orcisi.UUCP writes:
>I would like to know if MS-Windows will run on Sun's SunIPC board?
>...and is there a Windows display driver available that supports
>for the SunIPC that supports higher than conventional PC screen
>resolutions (i.e. > EGA resolution)?  Maybe the limitation will
>be in the SunIPC screen emulation...

Yes it works on the Sun IPC.  We have had an IPC for about 2 months and have
had no trouble with any PC software.  The only problem was installing
Windows.  We first installed it onto a real PC we had hooked up with PC-NFS
and then transfered the created directories onto a network disk where the
IPC could see it.  Things work fine, although if you are using the IPC
a Sun other than the one with the IPC in it things get a little slow.

The IPC only simulates either a CGA or Hercules board, you cannot get any higher
resolution than that, but you can tell the IPC which one to emulate.

Hope this helps.


-- 
Sheldon Laube, The Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, MA 617-899-6500
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