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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agoDidn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoAlpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoAnd MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoThe NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoTo be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoYeah, porting the kernel is the “easy” part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agoYes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.
Didn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?
Alpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.
And MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.
The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂
Yeah, porting the kernel is the “easy” part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.
Yes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.