[rescue] WinNT on Alpha (was: Solaris on a PPC)

Bjorn Ramqvist v53278 at g.haggve.se
Thu Feb 6 08:34:34 CST 2003


Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> Was I just duped by marketing (I can see how you could make a person
> think it was 64 bit without actually saying it - "WinNT supports native
> code on DEC Alpha processors, which are 64 bit CPU.")?

Well, Digital had this product called "FX!32" which made you able to run
x86 32-bit binaries on the Alpha+NT platform. I've actually tried it,
and with somewhat moderate performance too.

/Bjorn


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