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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned FX!32. That was the binary translation layer that Windows NT on DEC Alpha used back in 1996 or so to run x86 Windows bi

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned FX!32. That was the binary translation layer that Windows NT on DEC Alpha used back in 1996 or so to run x86 Windows binaries. There is an old Digital Technical Journal article about it here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/vol9num1/vol9num1art1.pdf http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/vol9num1/vol9num1art1.pd... Everything old is new again!

qubex 9y ago
Ah, DEC Alpha! I had one that ran NT 4.0 and pre-release copies of Windows 2000 (amongst other things) and the day Microsoft decided not to release Windows 2000 for it was one of the saddest of my life (until then).
wmu 9y ago
AFAIR they had a kind of profile-based optimization. It was amazing.
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