18 May
1998
18 May
'98
6:24 p.m.
OK... I know that Windows 1.x/2.x was horibbly unsuccessful... but I
remember reading about some platforms that Windows was ported to that seemed
pretty strange... (IE non-x86).
Anyone???
Tim D. Hotze
18 May
18 May
7:18 p.m.
Hotze wrote:
OK... I know that Windows 1.x/2.x was horibbly unsuccessful... but I
remember reading about some platforms that Windows was ported to that seemed
pretty strange... (IE non-x86).
Anyone???
Nope, nein, none. While (16-bit and under) Windows can be used with
other processors _now_ courtesy of WABI, WINE and other independent
projects, only NT has ever been officially supported by Microsoft on
any non-Intel (or "clone" -- though MS's support is questionable in
that case) CPU. And support for NT on non-Intel processors has been
dropping and is not promised for the future. (Then again, support for
any Microsoft product can't be counted upon a year after release or
release of the the next version, whichever comes earlier).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
7:21 p.m.
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Nope, nein, none. While (16-bit and under) Windows
can be used with
other processors _now_ courtesy of WABI, WINE and other independent
projects, only NT has ever been officially supported by Microsoft on
any non-Intel (or "clone" -- though MS's support is questionable in
that case) CPU. And support for NT on non-Intel processors has been
dropping and is not promised for the future. (Then again, support for
any Microsoft product can't be counted upon a year after release or
release of the the next version, whichever comes earlier).
I like to bash Microsoft as much as the next guy, but their CPU support on
Windows CE is pretty good: x86, MIPS, Hitachi, PPC, and ARM, at least.
Geowork's GEOS was an early (better-than-Microsoft-but-crushed-anyway)
Windowing system that ran on both x86 and 6502 (and maybe more).
-- Doug
19 May
19 May
4:25 a.m.
I have Windows for the HP 150 Touch Screen computer. I have the complete
program package but the disks have bit rot so I haven't been able to load it.
Joe
At 06:24 AM 5/19/98 +0300, you wrote:
OK... I know that Windows 1.x/2.x was horibbly
unsuccessful... but I
remember reading about some platforms that Windows was ported to that seemed
pretty strange... (IE non-x86).
Anyone???
Tim D. Hotze
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