28 Jan
2016
28 Jan
'16
5:57 a.m.
tor 2016-01-28 klockan 14:01 +0100 skrev Liam Proven:
The result was named "Windows NT".
Entertainingly, WNT is what you get if you shift the letters of 'VMS"
1 position forward in the alphabet.
Actually, though, it was developed on multiple CPU platforms, and one
was an in-house board design based around Intel's RISC chip, the i860
-- codenamed the N10. NT allegedly stood for "N Ten" before MS
marketing retconned it to "New Technology".
IS the multiplatform aspect one of the reason why the kernel as such
worked so well ?
12 years ago the Gtk/GNOME hackers had a heated discussion about
portability to SPARC64.
I can't help thinking that if they had done the work at that time with
regards to 64bitness and threading the stack today would work much
better in current multicore amd64 cpus.