Re: is Vax addressing sane today

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?

It did. I have no experience with Windows NT on SPARC or PowerPC, but the
OS ran fine on MIPS. It was a commercial failure, because MIPS didn't
keep up with the performance growth of x86.

PowerPC did for a while, but the company interested in NT on PowerPC was
IBM, and their hardware prices were a /lot/ higher than x86 prices. They
didn't see that as a problem, but all the potential customers did.

John