I had never heard of the PICA-61, thanks! I owned a DEC Multia back in the late 90s, when they were already obsolete and plentiful. It had SRM firmware, not A

I had never heard of the PICA-61, thanks! I owned a DEC Multia back in the late 90s, when they were already obsolete and plentiful. It had SRM firmware, not ARC, but I didn't have any interest in running NT on it anyway. Ran Linux really well and used it as my personal server for years. Later I put NetBSD on it for a short time, but I don't remember why. I remember the it frequently printing messages about unaligned memory traps to the console, but it did the job. I'm sure Microsoft was sincerely hedging their architecture with NT on MIPS/Alpha/PowerPC/i960/etc at the start, but by the time that hardware shipped with NT on it was pretty clear all the momentum wasn't leaving x86. On the 64-bit Alpha, I believe NT userspace was still 32-bit and so were all the applications. I don't remember any 64-bit Alpha NT applications ever shipping, but I admit I wasn't watching that scene very closely.