[rescue] Windows 2000

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Thu Dec 16 15:06:39 CST 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:58:06PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> >I know this is a bad subject, but I was reading an article about
> >windows nt and the influence dec had on it. In the article it said
> >that  compaq kept development of windows 2000 up to 1999 on Alphas.
> >Has anyone here seen it running on an Alpha
> 
> Yep.  I even have CDs of the last beta at home.  It's about like NT 4 on
> Alpha: blazing fast, but largely irrelevant due to the lack of available
> applications.

What's application availbility matter if you can write your own?

Of course, if you are writing your own, you might as well pick whatever
you like best to work on.

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Joshua D. Boyd
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