[GTALUG] example of why RISC was a good idea

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:02:08PM -0400, Alvin Starr wrote:
> Few of these technologies failed because of price.
> One thing that will put several nails in the coffin of a processor is
> not having a windows port.
> Another is having a proprietary OS.

Power, MIPS and Alpha all ran Windows NT 4.  Itanium ran XP and Server.
Didn't seem to do any of them any good.

ARM did not run windows until Windows CE and Windows RT.

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Len Sorensen