26 Sep
2011
26 Sep
'11
7:44 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Slick" <glen.slick at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: IBM Model M keyboard repair tip
On Sep 26, 2011 5:38 PM, "Fred Cisin"
<cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
As far as I know Microsoft skipped Mac PPC support which would dwarf all the
other systems sold in numbers. MS tried supporting those other chips in
servers, don't think they supported workstations (did they release MS Office
for any of those chips?).
After NT for those other chips flopped they killed support in later Win2000
alpha releases so Win2K release didn't support anything but x86.
If NT had caught on for the Alpha (or any other chip) AND that platform was
still around in quantities worth selling to, MS would still support them
just like MS still makes office for Mac. MS is out to make money and will
support anything that makes them major money.
When NT 4.x came out, MS marketing droids made a big deal out if being 99
44/100% portable C code, and how they were going to port it to EVERY
computer. (even the impossible ones)
Later, they changed their strategy more towards trying to achieve the
same
result by trying to eliminate the existence of anything that Windoze
wouldn't run on.
There were Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC versions. What other CPU architectures
were out there at the time in any volume that would justify the effort to
support?