27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
2:25 p.m.
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:34:19 -0700, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
Ah yes, I remember seeing NT running on an Alpha box for the first time
out in San Jose (can't remember the exact show). My first impression
was "cool, an Alpha box", my next impression was "how depressing to see
the Windows interface running on an Alpha box".
That said, I have a PREP machine floating around somewhere that I was
running NT on for a while. Cool thing was being able to run an Intel NT
simulator and running Intel NT apps faster than my fastest Intel box at
the time :)
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Steven Hirsch
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:42 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only
Subject: Re: IBM Model M keyboard repair tip
[snip]
This is getting way off-topic, but somewhere I have a WinNT 4 CD
with
PowerPC, MIPS and Alpha versions on it.
Hey look, a new subject line! :-)
I remember working with NT4 on all of those when I was first at
Microsoft, back in the mid-late '90s. Developers loooooved the Alpha
machines: their local builds ran way faster than on those Pentium
pigs. Having a DEC UWS was a bigger perk than having a window
office.
-- Ian