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To: Tim McGee who wrote (24192)11/6/1998 5:12:00 PM
From: joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 45548
 
Tim, you need to send that to Steve "NT" Porter<g>


>>NT dropped support for Power PC a while ago and recently MIPS chips simply due to market demands. Alpha still going but not much sales as a percentage.<<

Yeah, I forgot to mention that the NT SGI machines will be using
the INTC chips. This is my understanding.

MIPS chips will still be around, but I'm not sure for what...
maybe cellular phones?

joe



To: Tim McGee who wrote (24192)11/6/1998 7:26:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 45548
 
Tim,

Microsoft has a POSIX compliant subsystem in windows NT and it's still there!... go check the product literature.. if you like I can dig some up and point you to it.

As for the support for the PPC and MIPS.. I stated in my post to Joe that NT wasn't developing for those platforms anymore, but I know that at least teh PPC binaries are still shipping on the CDs at this time.

Steve



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