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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•10 hours agoDidn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•6 hours agoYes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.
minus-square@leftzerolinkEnglish2•6 hours agoThe NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•10 hours agoAlpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 hours agoAnd MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.
Didn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?
Yes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.
The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
Alpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.
And MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.