> > >Didn't it used to run on the Alpha for awhile? > > MIPS also (never commercial?)
It definitely was a commercial product. >From WinNT 3.1 till 4.0 . I have the original WinNT 4.0 and 3.50 (as well as the 3.51 DDK) cd's with support for the following ISA's on it: Mips, PPC, Alpha, i386. Either PPC or Alpha support survived the longest, until fall 1999 and had been part of WinNT5.0 (aka Win2k) for a long time. > and SPARC (32 bit SuperSPARC port with > a special "little endian mode"; Intergraph did that work but also never > became a product. Very true, not many know about this. Just an addition: All the ports to RISC ISA's had been done by Intergraph. And the reason why the WinNT_3.1_sparcv8 port never made it into a product, is, because SUNW didn't want it to become one. Because SUNW feared competition to Solaris, they purchased the WinNT3.1_sparc rights! I once used waybackmachine.org to bring (myself) some light into those questions. How could it run in LSB on pre-v9, maybe you confuse that with PPC? > > >Back around early Solaris 9 when Sun was talking about dropping > >support for x86, I know I said more than once (and can't have been > >the only one!) that a port is an insurance policy, particularly when > >running on a minority CPU architecture. > > Absolutely; and giving up Solaris/x86 under estimated both the relative > weaknesses of SPARC and the strengths of Solaris. SPARC is a way superiour ISA design (i.e. register windowing), when compared to the i80386 . It's implementation in not_so_fast silicon is a completely different aspect. Everyone is free to adopt sparc.org or now OpenSPARC.net for faster implementations. (Forget about your experiences with Ultra5_10 class slow-ies, use a Dual x7017a or x7310a Blade 2000!) Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
