• DocumentCode
    1718555
  • Title

    The Windows NT operating system on a PowerPC microprocessor

  • Author

    Holle, M.

  • Author_Institution
    RISC Div., Motorola Inc., Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    1994
  • Firstpage
    332
  • Lastpage
    336
  • Abstract
    This paper describes some of the major obstacles which were encountered and overcome during the porting of the Windows NT operating system to a PowerPC processor. The Motorola team charged with doing the porting is quite small relative to the scope of the project. Fortunately, the modularity and portability of the operating system structure allows for a small and specialized design team to be quite effective.<>
  • Keywords
    graphical user interfaces; microprocessor chips; operating systems (computers); software portability; Motorola; PowerPC microprocessor; Windows NT operating system; modularity; portability; porting; small specialized design team; Emulation; Hardware; Kernel; Memory management; Microprocessors; Microprogramming; Multitasking; Operating systems; Power system management; Power system modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Compcon Spring '94, Digest of Papers.
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-5380-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CMPCON.1994.282910
  • Filename
    282910