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About a few years after this article came out, I was working for a local hardware reseller. One of the engineers on staff for support told me about NT on Alpha.
by someonehere 5y ago
About a few years after this article came out, I was working for a local hardware reseller. One of the engineers on staff for support told me about NT on Alpha. He also told me there was NT for PowerPC somewhere in a development lab at Microsoft. I didn’t get that far into digging, but he made it sound like Microsoft was doing this as a backup solution should Apple want to offer it.
- classichasclass 5y agoThere was. NT3.51 and NT4 were available for PowerPC (and MIPS) and was commercially sold, but only for IBM's workstations and the PowerPC ThinkPads, not for Power Macs. It was dropped by W2K.
- andrewf 5y agoAnd it's a single product - the NT3.51 and NT4 CDs you'd use to install an x86 PC also support PowerPC/MIPS/Alpha. Googling suggests you can run the MIPS version inside QEMU, but PowerPC is as much a bust as it was on PowerMacs.
- cable2600 5y agoIBM RS/4000 Unix computer PowerPC workstations? They came with AIX.
- lukeh 5y agoPost-Copland, Apple apparently looked at Solaris and the NT kernel (source: Wikipedia), before BeOS and NEXTSTEP.