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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: a comment on NT made by terry
Message-ID: <1992Dec5.234523.27186@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Berkeley, CA - 94704
References: <22947@venera.isi.edu> <id.FOCV.Q52@ferranti.com> <1992Dec1.184115.8699@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 23:45:23 GMT
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In article <1992Dec1.184115.8699@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>This has very little to do with anything.  Even Intel is well aware of the
>limitations of the 80x86 architecture.  This is why the 80586 (renamed
>"pentium") is mostly a RISC chip with a backward compatability mode.  The
>initial NT marketing blurbs called for NT to run on a lot of hardware it
>will probably never run on.
>
Actually Dave Cutler told me (i.e he was 2 feet away and talking directly to me)(it's not 'hear-say') That NT as it stood now had NO support for running
on big-endian machines, and that thay had no short term plans to add that
feature. 

they run the mips in 'spim' (little endian) mode, and the alpha is also little-
endian.


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