Sujet : Re: is Vax addressing sane today
De : jgd (at) *nospam* cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 01. Oct 2024, 10:12:34
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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
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