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NT 4.0 was "widely popular" when it came out. Consumer PCs didn't run it, so it's forgotten history. Anyway the question was whether NT ran on big-endian archit
by phendrenad2 5y ago
NT 4.0 was "widely popular" when it came out. Consumer PCs didn't run it, so it's forgotten history. Anyway the question was whether NT ran on big-endian architectures, which I answered. I have nothing to say about how popular those ports were, only that they were easily technically achievable for the NT OS.
- kazinator 5y agoYou have no answered it at all. Dec Alpha is little-endian (little-endian only, I believe). MIPS and PowerPC are bi-endian (possibly depending on exact model? Maybe some can be switched, whereas some are fixed?) Windows NT ran on PowerPC in little endian mode. Hey look, A Reymond Chen article from 2018 mentions this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180806-00/?p=99425 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180806-00/?p=99... The Pocket PC (later Windows CE, later Windows Mobile) were used on MIPS quite a bit. I did some Windows CE work on MIPS units. It was all little endian. I don't think NT on MIPS was any different.