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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 15 Apr 1997 16:55:27 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Tim Smith
wrote on 13 Apr (in article <5iprtp$hso$1@halcyon.com>):
>> Alphas and MIPS are _not_ x86 machines. You can't get NT MIPS anymore,
>>and you can't get Office for ALPHA/NT. Sure, it runs under the x86 emulator,
=Who told you that you can't get NT MIPS? It's on the NT 4.0 CD-ROM that
=you can buy at CompUSA, Egghead, etc., along with x86, PPC, and Alpha NT
=4.0. I don't think you can get updates for it, though.
Microsoft has abandoned the MIPS and PowerPC ports of WinNT. They will
still support the existing customers, but new releases of NT are not
going to support the architectures. Only Intel and Alpha are left.
-mi
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