On 11/18/05, John Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:16:18PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: [...] > However, as I recall, NT was being developed for the Alpha at > one point - I think it was available commercially for a while > and not just internal to MS. Not to surprising, actually, > since a large chunk of the original NT design team was hired > away from DEC (Dave Cutler et al). [...]
This is true. It is an amusing irony that one of the initial design goals for NT was to be highly portable to different chip architectures, while Linux was designed to take full advantage of 386-specific features. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
