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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:8753 comp.unix.solaris:715 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.solaris Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!tfs.com!julian From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: a comment on NT made by terry Message-ID: <1992Dec5.234523.27186@tfs.com> Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Berkeley, CA - 94704 References: <22947@venera.isi.edu> <id.FOCV.Q52@ferranti.com> <1992Dec1.184115.8699@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 23:45:23 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1992Dec1.184115.8699@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > >This has very little to do with anything. Even Intel is well aware of the >limitations of the 80x86 architecture. This is why the 80586 (renamed >"pentium") is mostly a RISC chip with a backward compatability mode. The >initial NT marketing blurbs called for NT to run on a lot of hardware it >will probably never run on. > Actually Dave Cutler told me (i.e he was 2 feet away and talking directly to me)(it's not 'hear-say') That NT as it stood now had NO support for running on big-endian machines, and that thay had no short term plans to add that feature. they run the mips in 'spim' (little endian) mode, and the alpha is also little- endian. +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 2118 Milvia st. Berkeley CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 704-3137(wk) \_/ \\ v