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I'm 100% sure you're misremembering it running on SPARC, NT never ran on SPARC.

dagw 3y ago
Correct. NT 3.1 ran on x86, Alpha and MIPS. NT 3.5 added PowerPC support. As you say, SPARC was never supported. Windows 2000 had both x86 and Alpha support up through the release candidate, but Alpha was dropped before final release. I actually had an Alpha workstation running Windows 2000 (for fun) back in the mists of time.
- Furball37 3y ago
  There's also the Beta Whistler AXP64 Build which was used to port Windows over to 64-bit before there was any 64-bit hardware available that could run NT. The people in the virtuallyfun discord got that running (I am part of that! I have an AlphaServer 800 5/500 next to me, with some hacks to the setup and telling it what HAL DLL to load it installed perfectly!)
- omnibrain 3y ago
  Later there was Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for Itanic Workstations and there was Windows Server up to 2008 R2 for Itanic Servers.
  - scruffyherder 3y ago
    Itanium XP was weird, it's like that super early AMD64 version where more of the OS is 32bit than 64bit, with no high theming. It was still exciting at the time.
    - omnibrain 3y ago
      IIRC it was even weirder, because it was a XP branded Server 2003 under the hood.
      - dagw 3y ago
        It's even weirder than that :) The initial release of XP for Itanium was more or less a stripped down XP build with limited 64 bit support. They then quickly gave up on that approach and released a second version of Windows XP for Itanium, together with the launch of Itanium 2 support, which was, as you said, a rebranded Server 2003.
        omnibrain 3y ago
        One could say, that they tried really hard. ;)
slamonjam 3y ago
There was an announcement that Intergraph would port Windows NT to SPARC: http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1993/Jul/55.11-Sun-Intergraph:-SPARC-and-Windows-NT http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1993/Jul/55.11-Sun... Guess it never went anywhere.
- kjs3 3y ago
  It didn't. There are rumors it got out to a handful of alpha/beta sites, but it was never a supported product.

dagw 3y ago

Correct. NT 3.1 ran on x86, Alpha and MIPS. NT 3.5 added PowerPC support. As you say, SPARC was never supported. Windows 2000 had both x86 and Alpha support up through the release candidate, but Alpha was dropped before final release. I actually had an Alpha workstation running Windows 2000 (for fun) back in the mists of time.

Furball37 3y ago
There's also the Beta Whistler AXP64 Build which was used to port Windows over to 64-bit before there was any 64-bit hardware available that could run NT. The people in the virtuallyfun discord got that running (I am part of that! I have an AlphaServer 800 5/500 next to me, with some hacks to the setup and telling it what HAL DLL to load it installed perfectly!)
omnibrain 3y ago
Later there was Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for Itanic Workstations and there was Windows Server up to 2008 R2 for Itanic Servers.
- scruffyherder 3y ago
  Itanium XP was weird, it's like that super early AMD64 version where more of the OS is 32bit than 64bit, with no high theming. It was still exciting at the time.
  - omnibrain 3y ago
    IIRC it was even weirder, because it was a XP branded Server 2003 under the hood.
    - dagw 3y ago
      It's even weirder than that :) The initial release of XP for Itanium was more or less a stripped down XP build with limited 64 bit support. They then quickly gave up on that approach and released a second version of Windows XP for Itanium, together with the launch of Itanium 2 support, which was, as you said, a rebranded Server 2003.
      - omnibrain 3y ago
        One could say, that they tried really hard. ;)

slamonjam 3y ago

There was an announcement that Intergraph would port Windows NT to SPARC: http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1993/Jul/55.11-Sun-Intergraph:-SPARC-and-Windows-NT http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1993/Jul/55.11-Sun... Guess it never went anywhere.

kjs3 3y ago
It didn't. There are rumors it got out to a handful of alpha/beta sites, but it was never a supported product.