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they only support four (x86, amd64, ARM, ARM64) To be fair, NT shipped on x86, PPC, Alpha and MIPS. There was a never-released version for SPARC. It was origin
by gaius 8y ago
they only support four (x86, amd64, ARM, ARM64)
To be fair, NT shipped on x86, PPC, Alpha and MIPS. There was a never-released version for SPARC. It was originally developed on the i860. Wasn’t later Windows also available on Itanium too?
MS cut down on their list of supported CPUs for commercial, not technical reasons.
- cyphar 8y agoLinux also supported more architectures in the past that I haven't included in my count (same for the BSDs too). If you updated the count with all architectures ever supported by the platform then I have doubts that it would change the ordering significantly.