[rescue] NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP?

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 15:52:58 CDT 2014


WinNT *was* released on Alpha, it was supported on Multias and other Alpha
machines of that period.

It didn't go anywhere AFAIK.

Originally, NT supported four CPU types: MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, and Intel:

http://m.windowsitpro.com/windows-client/death-alpha-nt

Lionel

> On Aug 9, 2014, at 2:11 PM, "Carl R. Friend" <crfriend at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> "Releasing" NT (Mica) on anything but x86 would have been frought
> with difficulty as the hardware manufacturer would have been beholden
> to Microsoft for continued ports.


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