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Article #1791Re: harmful effects of gnu software II
From: Stefan Aberg
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:03
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:03
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In article <1993Jan25.103308.3145@alex.com> bryan@alex.com (Bryan Boreham) writes: In article <1993Jan25.012247.7610@cc.uow.edu.au>, amorton@cc.uow.edu.au (andrew morton) writes: |> Perhaps, but if he's such a smart cookie how come he designed an |> OS that will only run on little-endian machines? I have heard this assertion before, but I find it very hard to believe. Would someone like to back it up, e.g. citing the particular casts and unnatural unions that make the code little-endian-only? Bryan Boreham In SunWorld June 1992 Dwayne Walker of Microsoft is quoted to say: "There is nothing that prevents Windows NT from appearing on a significant variety of hardware bases". and also: "I can't comment on the rumors that it is already running on SPARC, ..." Not that it proves that NT can run on other than little-endian machines but it would make Microsoft look pretty supid if it was true. -- Stefan Aberg radcode!sab@uunet.uu.net Berkeley CA
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!radcode!sab From: sab@radcode.uucp (Stefan Aberg) Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software II Sender: sab@uunet.uu.net!radcode (Stefan Aberg) Message-ID: <SAB.93Jan25110302@radcode.uucp> In-Reply-To: bryan@alex.com's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:33:08 +0000 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:03:03 GMT Lines: 20 References: <C1CD82.4Gt@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1jtm7vINNis9@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan25.012247.7610@cc.uow.edu.au> <1993Jan25.103308.3145@alex.com> Organization: RadCode