On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
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 think the breakdown was:
- NT 3.1/3.5 supported x86 (i.e., i386+), Alpha, MIPS;
- NT 3.51 added PowerPC;
- NT 4.0 supported x86, Alpha, MIPS & PowerPC SP1, but PPC was
dropped before SP1, I think;
- Win2K officially supported only x86 (requiring a 486 or better) and
IA-64 (i.e., Itanium);
- XP supported x86-32 (Pentium or better), x86-64 & IA-64.
There were unofficial, unreleased builds for other platforms - around
the end of the NT3 timeframe, there was a SPARC build, and I have
heard of builds of W2K for Alpha, developed internally, basically just
to keep the code tree cross-platform-portable clean.
By XP, it was cross-platform again, inasmuch as it supported IA-64 and
later x86-64, so the Alpha build was dropped even internally. AIUI,
anyway.
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