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There are alternate histories regarding that: like how non x86 versions of NT were subpar and had a dearth of available software, and likely only existed to fre
by pohl 17y ago
There are alternate histories regarding that: like how non x86 versions of NT were subpar and had a dearth of available software, and likely only existed to freeze the market for open-systems unix vendors, all of which had those CPU architectures as a strategic advantage.
- rbanffy 17y agoI played with NT on Alpha. It was a blazing-fast workstation that had almost no software except Softimage. Lack of Office killed the desktop Windows on RISC. On PPC, I remember SQL Server had some weird network bugs too.