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Laukev7:
It appears that there has been, in fact, a SPARC version of Windows NT, at least for a short period of time.

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=2426

 
quote: Yes MS did make a version of NT for SPARC. IIRC Intergraph briefly sold it for their SPARC based systems. Sun ended up purchasing exclusive rights to NT for SPARC so they could sit on it.
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http://www.intergraph.com/ingrhistory90s.htm

 
quote: In August 1993, Intergraph entered into an agreement with Sun Microsystems to co-develop the next generation Sun SPARC high-end microprocessor, develop a SPARC-based desktop system, and port Windows NT to that system.  Sun hired the employees of Intergraph

Laukev7:

quote: has anybody ever made NT 4 install on a PPC machine? what do you need to make this happen?
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That I would like to know. I assume you would just need to pop any Windows NT 4 CD in a PPC machine, since it contains the binaries for all four architectures (excluding the SPARC version, which was third party). It was probably designed to run on PPC servers, but it should be able to run on old 601-603 Powermacs, since Apple was part of the CHRP initiative at the time.

[ November 06, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

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