6 Apr
2007
6 Apr
'07
4:42 a.m.
Whoa... that's what I get while posting while sleeping.
I thought after the i860 was the NT for Mips and then Alpha.
Bill
On 4/6/07, Bill Pechter <pechter at gmail.com> wrote:
I thought it was an Intel 860... or something like that.
On 4/5/07, r.stricklin <bear at typewritten.org> wrote:
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d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now!
pechter-at-gmail.com
On Apr 5, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I don't think there was ever a 68000 version of NT, even under
consideration. The initial development target was i860. When it
became obvious that wasn't going to work out, efforts went to...
I have a Fall '93 developer preview of NT 3.1 which has some text
files in the SDK which describe this piece of history. I was just
going to check if it wasn't the MC88000 that was briefly considered
as the primary target after i860, but before MIPS R4000 (which I
recall being the primary target for most of the development phase
before the first efforts to bring it up on ia32), but I seem to have
temporarily misplaced the disc.
ok
bear
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d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now!
pechter-at-gmail.com Did a
copy of this x86 Mac OS ever leak out onto the net?
Don't think so.
. . . and what about the 68000 version of Windoze NT?
Was there a "deal" for mutual suppression?