[rescue] Solaris on a PPC

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:40, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:

> > Why is NT on Alpha 32bit? Wouldn't that mean horrible performance?
> 
> It also means instability, and an Alpha that needs a BIOS to boot. 

I thought that WinNT was 32 bit to accomodate Intel exectuables,
running through the HAL interface, but weren't 64 bit Alpha executables
supported?

Then again, in hind-sight, if WinNT were 64 bit on Alpha hardware, then
it really would have been touted much more that it (appraently) was...

Was I just duped by marketing (I can see how you could make a person
think it was 64 bit without actually saying it - "WinNT supports native
code on DEC Alpha processors, which are 64 bit CPU.")?

TIA, 

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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