[SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC

[Paul Khoury]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:57:02 -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Khoury [mailto:pkhoury3 at earthlink.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:52 PM
>> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:35:35 -0600, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
>> 
>> >On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:29:55PM -0800, Paul Khoury wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Maybe it's coincidence, but it seems that OS/2 and Windows 
>> NT for PPC
>> >> was killed as well.
>> >> 
>> >> I wonder what that all adds up to?
>> >
>> >One great big Intel conspiracy?
>> 
>> Maybe that too?  In the case of NT for example, they even 
>> seemed to kill MIPS support,
>> so it's now just Alpha and x86.
>
>Nope, NT ONLY runs on x86 now.  Alpha is a gonner.  Compaq has (reportedly)
>fired their NT on Alpha team.

Hmmm....

Interesting nothing else was PCish was tried to be ported to the SPARC
(excluding Free/Net/OpenBSD, Linux).

I never like the Alpha anyways, though (bad experiance with a Multia and a desktop
box).