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They killed it at about the time they started working on AMD64 internally with AMD. Dave Cutler himself gave feedback on the pre silicon design; it was basical
by monocasa 4y ago
They killed it at about the time they started working on AMD64 internally with AMD. Dave Cutler himself gave feedback on the pre silicon design; it was basically co designed with Microsoft. They kept PowerPC in public products until they had another way out. And to this day PowerPC support still exists internally in the NT kernel.
They also literally were shipping an NT derived kernel for Xbox 360 into the 2010s.
- pjmlp 4y agoBetween 1997 and the release of XBox in 2001 there was enough years of code changes (two major NT based releases), also XBox NT kernel was basically that, a stripped down kernel without any relation to Windows 2000 userspace.
- monocasa 4y agoAnd notice I said 360; they reimported the PowerPC support from mainline NT in 2005. And to this day they still have PowerPC support internally in mainline NT. And that small bit doesn't address the core of what I'm saying, that PowerPC support would have seen even more support if the two options were that and Itanium.
- pjmlp 4y agoI guess we will have to agree to disagree that Itanium would have won anyway. Which doesn't matter which of us is right, because AMD created AMD64 and killed Itaninum in the process.