Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 19:33:21 10/03/99
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On October 03, 1999 at 19:06:17, Rajen Gupta wrote: >compaq is readying a 1.6 ghz alpha processor and ibm is readying a 1.2 ghz >powerpc-these are obviously more powerful specs than a 800mhz merced which will >only be out next july.can anyone tell why microsoft is not about to port 64 bit >windows to either of these 2 processors.Surely old enmity and animosity should >not prevent microsoft from porting thie Os to the best available hardware? >afterall doesn't it makes more business sense to do? > >I apologise for this off topic post but i feel perhaps it has some relevance to >us chess computer addicts as it would impact on the speed of hardware available >for the mainstream chess programmes > >rajen 32-bit NT has run on numerous non-Intel platforms, but I've watched them drop all of them until only Intel is left. I guess they don't think it is worth it to support those platforms. I had thought they'd support Alpha for sure, but then Compaq bought Alpha and I have no idea what happened after that, but no more NT for Alpha, apparently. bruce
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