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It's worth remembering that Microsoft together with various partners have tried to do non-x86 Windows before: Windows NT also ran on the Alpha and MIPS for seve
by TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
It's worth remembering that Microsoft together with various partners have tried to do non-x86 Windows before: Windows NT also ran on the Alpha and MIPS for several years, and Windows XP had an Itanium version. Presumably those efforts failed for the same reasons.
- logbiscuitswave 6y agoI knew there were IA64 versions of Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2 and there was an X64 version of XP but I didn’t realize there was also an IA64 version of XP. TIL. I once had an IA64 workstation that I used for testing a product I was working on with that platform and I can’t recall having anything good to say about it. The workstation itself was big, loud, and ugly. Windows didn’t run all that great and there were constant compat issues. Good riddance.
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago> there was an X64 version of XP but I didn’t realize there was also an IA64 version of XP :) It may be forgotten now, but all the infrastructure Microsoft added for running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS was first added for Itanium's sake!
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoHow could I forget, there was also the PowerPC version of NT!