Paul . L . Snyder on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:11:55 -0400 |
On 02-Aug-2002, "Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote: > Noah silva said: >> >> dual-platform. The big reason why it was "OK" to use Windows NT was >> because it was becoming multi-platform, so it was a "real server os" >> like unix... of course "multi" seems to have meant only three (ppc, >> alpha, and x86), and tho of those are dropped now. To me >> "multi-platform" means that every platform that can be reasonably >> supported should. > > Long ago, NT used to support MIPS, too. Before NT 4, I believe. Yep, and Microsoft just pulled the same stunt with the "multi-platform" Windows CE/Pocket PC OS. Where they used to support MIPS, ARM, and Hitachi SH3, they've now dropped all but the ARM. pls _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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