Paul . L . Snyder on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:11:55 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Acrobat for Linux?


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

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