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Linux supports a larger number of architectures than NT ever did, but NT was originally implemented on a non-x86 processor to insure portability. The MIPS, Powe
by EvanAnderson 5y ago
Linux supports a larger number of architectures than NT ever did, but NT was originally implemented on a non-x86 processor to insure portability. The MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, and IA64 ports of NT are all dead, but they were all supported in the past. The speed that Microsoft brought up NT on ARM illustrates the portability too.
- throwawayboise 5y agoYeah one of the features of NT is its hardware abstraction. Even though those other platforms have fallen by the wayside I would presume that abstraction layer is still there.
- com2kid 5y agoThey never let the ARM port lapse. One developer kept it compiling as a personal project.