26 Nov
2009
26 Nov
'09
1 a.m.
Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:35:37 -0600
Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, just before Windows 2000. (The Win2k Beta for AXP is still
floating around out there).
Interesting historical note: Microsoft internally used Alpha hardware
to smoke-test porting XP to the Itanium and other 64-bit platforms
(Previous NT builds on Alpha were really only 32-bit) before the real
hardware was widely available. I have a hard disk image of such a
build, kinda cool but you can't do much with it... as was true with most
other non-x86 flavors of NT. Not a lot of software for the non-x86
platforms. DEC's FX!32 was really cool, though. I got Firefox 2.0
running on my Alpha under NT 4.0 using that...
Josh
And which version of windows was it that ran on
the dec alpha?
NT. Alpha support was canceled just before the release of XP.