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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoDidn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 month agoYes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoAlpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoAnd MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.
minus-square@leftzerolinkEnglish4•1 month 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@octobladelinkEnglish4•1 month agoYeah, porting the kernel is the “easy” part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoGotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoTo be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂
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.
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.
The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
Yeah, porting the kernel is the “easy” part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.
Gotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw
To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂