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> Windows NT originally shipped with support for all major CPUs targeted by UNIX workstations, yet all of them faded away until Itanium. Sure, and as any Linux

> Windows NT originally shipped with support for all major CPUs targeted by UNIX workstations, yet all of them faded away until Itanium. Sure, and as any Linux advocate will tell you, most folks on Windows are stuck there due to the proprietary applications that only run there. They don't care much about the OS, but they need the apps that they know and which have their data locked away. These apps didn't run on the other processors, so Windows on other arches was mainly a curiosity.

pjmlp 4y ago
Actually they did on Alpha, and Microsoft has just recently did the same for ARM. They would have done the same for Itanium if AMD64 had not happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x86-emulation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x8...