On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ben Tilly wrote: > 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.
Just as... IBM <- HAL ...also try... VMS -> WNT And why did NT start at 3.5? Supposedly, because some government contract specified that they could requisition any version of Novell or any version of Windows "higher" than 3.11. -- Chris Devers, who's still hoping that Mac OS X will one day "go to eleven" to complete the circle... _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
