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From: alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NT doesn't support MIPS anymore [ was Re: Linux or FreeBSD ...]
Date: 24 Apr 1997 15:45:42 GMT
Organization: Mos Eisley Candy Store
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Message-ID: <5jnv76$1cd$1@dewey.udel.edu>
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In article <5jfcfq$e63$1@klemm.gtn.com>,
Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> wrote:
:In article <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com>,
: lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) writes:
:>>4 years ago(when FreeBSD started) there were no 200 MHz x86 CPUs!
:> Actually, there were. The DEC Alphas and the MIPS processors, all of
:> which NT can run on.
:
:You're deadly wrong ... Microsoft doesn't support MIPS anymore with
:their new Version 4.x.
[stuff deleted]
:And if I remember right, then one of the other Platforms, I think
:it's Power PC, isn't supported as well anymore with NT 4.x.
Actually, NT 4.0 does support MIPS and PPC. The support for those
platforms was dropped after the release of NT 4.0. Before we start
trashing MS (well, for this reason anyway, there are, after all, better
reasons to pick on them), keep in mind that one of the deciding factors
behind dropping these platforms was that vendors weren't bothering to
develop drivers since to them (the vendors), these were non-profitable
platforms. Microsoft decided to follow suit.
--Jerry
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