Not dead yet...

Brian Morrison pmmail@rpglink.com
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:54:34 +0100


On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:49:38 +0100, Paul Hodges wrote:

>On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:17:47 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
>
>>  it's more to do with Microsoft
>
>AIUI the programming team for the Alpha version of NT was largely
>Compaq personnel, so their withdrawal was what made it (un)happen.
>

That would explain it then. In other words, x86 is the only remaining
supported platform for NT, unless the i860/i960 version can still be
had. That's clearly portable!


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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk

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