Re: is Vax addressing sane today

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 15:31:55 -0000 (UTC)
Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

John Dallman <jgd@cix.co.uk> schrieb:

In article <vdg3d1$2kdqr$1@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:
 

Wasn't Windows NT supposed to be some kind of _portable_ OS?
Wasn't it supposed to run on big-endian architectures too, like
POWER, MIPS and SPARC? 

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It did. I have no experience with Windows NT on SPARC or PowerPC,
but the OS ran fine on MIPS. 

 
There was also a Windows for Alpha.  A German computer chain, Vobis,
tried to sell two models with that, but it flopped.

Alpha is Little Endian.
It seems that SPARC stands out as the only strictly Big Endian
architecture for which there was a serious attempt to port WinNT.
But not serious enough, it seems.

Now, thinking about it, I have a question.
Did Intergraph really try to port WinNT to SPARC v8 that was strictly
BE or they were porting to emerging SPARC v9 ? The later supports LE
data access. It seems, at that moment (~1993) there were no production
SPARC V9 chips, but the V9 ISA specs was already published.