On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:35:37 -0600
Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com> wrote:
And which version of windows was it that ran on the
dec alpha?
NT. Alpha support was canceled just before the release of XP. NT run on
the PowerStack PReP (PPC) machines from Motorola also. I have a pile of
those PowerStack II boxen. Though, my boxen have OpenFirmWare and run
AIX 4.x in a previous life. (...as office systems used by the German
police!) You need ARC firmware for NT. There was a Solaris 2.5.? PPC...
The SGI Indigo2 and Indy where also "Windows NT ready" but AFAIK NT was
never ported to them. (HAL-layer...)
BTW: Recently I conjured bad Daemons in the Unix-AG room. I replaced
HP-sUX with The-Anti-Unix, i.e. VMS 8.3, on a HP Integrity RX2600
Itanium2 machine . (I consider these two classic, although they are
not ten years old.) When an other Unix-AG fellow saw somthing about
"PAGEFILE.SYS" on the screen he screemed in disgust: "Eeewwww!
Windows!". Much to my amusement, knowing the heritage of NT... :-)
BTW2: An other example of non-PeeCee i386 systems where the first SGI
Visual Workstations.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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