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Microsoft has been through this already with the failed Alpha port of Windows. It should be interesting to see what plans they have to mitigate this.
by wtracy 14y ago
Microsoft has been through this already with the failed Alpha port of Windows. It should be interesting to see what plans they have to mitigate this.
- wmf 14y agoActually, x86 software ran fine on NT/Alpha; at one point x86 apps ran faster emulated on Alpha than natively on x86. (And emulated 68K on PPC was sometimes faster than native 68K.)
- josephcooney 14y agoI don't think it is fair to call it a "failed" alpha port. AFAIK WinNT was developed on multiple CPU architectures from the get go to ensure they didn't take any dependencies on one architecture. Alpha was one of those architectures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1 (also courtesy of the fact that Dave Cutler and a whole bunch of other guys from DEC were hired by MS to build NT) and continued to be supported for a while. I think Alpha's lack of success in the marketplace eventually killed NT's support for it.
- wtracy 14y agoI meant failed in the sense of a commercial failure, not a project failure.