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Apple even considered licensing the NT kernel before the acquisition: http://lowendmac.com/2013/the-rise-and-fall-of-apples-gil-amelio/ http://lowendmac.com/20
by erikj 9y ago
Apple even considered licensing the NT kernel before the acquisition: http://lowendmac.com/2013/the-rise-and-fall-of-apples-gil-amelio/ http://lowendmac.com/2013/the-rise-and-fall-of-apples-gil-am...
- walrus01 9y agoI forgot about that. Windows NT 3.5 and I think 4.0 were ported to the DEC Alpha CPU architecture and shipped on a number of (very expensive) DEC workstations at the time. So it is not totally nuts to possibly port it to the then-current Apple/Motorola PowerPC architecture as well. https://www.google.com/search?q=dec+alpha+windows+nt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b https://www.google.com/search?q=dec+alpha+windows+nt&ie=utf-...
- geesejuggler 9y agoI thought there once was a Windows NT version for PowerPC, but it was never released, or was pulled short after release. Never seen it in action though.