[rescue] Identifying SGI in picture for interests sake

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 05:24:33PM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> And for those folk who don't know it yet. NT was acually developed on
> MIPS... the early research versions of the OS had not a single x86 line.
> It was basically a port of some of the core ideas of VMS to an open
> platform (which was not yet defined, hence the hardware abstraction in
> the code)... at that point MIPS and M$ worked together and produced the
> magnum reference plaftform that the ARC people were supposed to use as the
> new PC. However DEC and SGI already had their MIPS lines, so ARC was
> modified to run on SGI and TurboChannel machines...

I had a MIPS Magnum R4000 box that I ran NT on.. 8-)

It even ran 16-bit DOS/X86 stuff in *emulation*.  Then, there was 
the fx86 stuff (I think that was the name) for NT/Alpha, that 
let you run x86 binaries; it was a "translator"..

Bill

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