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Re: Apple PowerMac G5



On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> Em Sat, 05 Jul 2003 18:36:51 +0800, debia escreveu:
> > As for Compaq killing Alpha and PA-RISC, that was driven by its
> > perception of how best to make a dollar. NT 4 was available for
> > IA32, Alpha, PPC and HP-RISC.
> 
> 	There was never MS WNT for the PA-RISC.  There was for SPARC,
> but never saw the light of the day.  Likewise Solaris for the PowerPC

Are you sure you didn't mean MIPS? NT/SPARC would be the only port of a Windows
variant to a big endian platform...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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