*BSD News Article 94390


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!194.158.160.13!nosy.bART.nl!usenet
From: baser@bart.nl (Bas Jansen)
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: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 18:36:15 GMT
Organization: bART Internet Services
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <335fa620.27491370@news.bart.nl>
References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <E84Kwp.8ox@nonexistent.com> <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com> <5jfc
fq$e63$1@klemm.gtn.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: s20.pm1.gld.bart.nl
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20570 comp.os.linux.misc:171864 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39697


On 21 Apr 1997 09:36:58 GMT, andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
wrote:

>You're deadly wrong ... Microsoft doesn't support MIPS anymore with
>their new Version 4.x.

Nope, you are wrong...NT4.0 still supports MIPS, as well as DEC Alpha
and PPC.

>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.

Read the obove. However, future versions of NT will not support
platforms other than Intel...what a shame :-(

>People, who believed, that Microsoft Windows NT is a real Multiplatform
>approach are left alone.
>
>That's the way, how Microsoft makes business with you ...

Sad but true..

Get the facts straight. From what I've read in your post it doesn't
appear that you are familiar with NT4.0 at all...