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Let's remember that until fairly recently the Windows kernel supported only one architecture, lol.
by H8crilA 3y ago
Let's remember that until fairly recently the Windows kernel supported only one architecture, lol.
- scrlk 3y agoIt was designed for portability from the beginning and was ported to x86: > Various versions of NT family operating systems have been released for a variety of processor architectures, initially IA-32, MIPS, and DEC Alpha, with PowerPC, Itanium, x86-64 and ARM supported in later releases. > In order to prevent Intel x86-specific code from slipping into the operating system, due to developers being used to developing on x86 chips, Windows NT 3.1 was initially developed using non-x86 development systems and then ported to the x86 architecture. This work was initially based on the Intel i860-based Dazzle system and, later, the MIPS R4000-based Jazz platform. Both systems were designed internally at Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT