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minus-squareTheWilliamist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoDidn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?
minus-squarethebigslime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoYes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.
minus-squareleftzero@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoThe NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
minus-squareoctoblade@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days 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-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoGotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw
Didn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?
Yes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.
The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
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.
Gotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw