[GTALUG] example of why RISC was a good idea

[James Knott]

On 05/22/2016 12:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:37:10PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>> On 05/22/2016 12:32 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> Power, MIPS and Alpha all ran Windows NT 4.  Itanium ran XP and Server.
>>> Didn't seem to do any of them any good.
>>>
>>> A
>> There was also a Power version of OS/2.
> I thought that was never finished and released.

When I was at IBM, in the late 90s, there were some Power systems
running OS/2.  I don't know if it was ever sold.

>
> Not that running OS/2 evern did any CPU any good (or bad it would seem).
>