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Article #623163Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:04
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:04
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On 21/06/2018 00:07, J. Clarke wrote: > > No news about Windows being portable. NT started out as a portable > OS. It was ported to less and less as time went on, mostly due to > lack of interest. It ran on the Alpha at one time, but nobody much > cared. I did the systems programmer course for RSX11-M at the Butts Centre in Reading in 1978 (Wowee!!!!! 40 years ago!!!!!) so could probably remember enough to reproduce the essence of what went to make up NT. The really clever bit, I thought at the time, was that critical adjustments to shared memory were done with interrupts ENABLED through the agency of $STKDPTH (sp?). > In any case, you can get Windows from Microsoft for the Raspberry Pi, > for free. Really, Tell me more, especially if it offers a 64 bit version, something that the RPI Foundation do not intend?
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