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Article #623205Re: Tahoe and Alpha Architectures
From: Grant Taylor
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 03:30
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 03:30
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On 04/24/2018 02:13 PM, Quadibloc wrote: > If some PC maker used a different architecture chip for its new computer, > then I would have to buy new copies of software for it. Software is > not usually sold as source code. That would be too easy to pirate. DEC released FX!32 to run x86 (Win32) programs on Windows NT on alpha. Windows NT 4.x shipped with binaries for multiple architectures on the same CD-ROM and used the same CD-KEY. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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