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- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Path: sparky!uunet!radcode!sab
- From: sab@radcode.uucp (Stefan Aberg)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software II
- Sender: sab@uunet.uu.net!radcode (Stefan Aberg)
- Message-ID: <SAB.93Jan25110302@radcode.uucp>
- In-Reply-To: bryan@alex.com's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:33:08 +0000
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:03:03 GMT
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- References: <C1CD82.4Gt@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1jtm7vINNis9@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- <1993Jan25.012247.7610@cc.uow.edu.au> <1993Jan25.103308.3145@alex.com>
- Organization: RadCode
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- In article <1993Jan25.103308.3145@alex.com> bryan@alex.com (Bryan Boreham) writes:
- In article <1993Jan25.012247.7610@cc.uow.edu.au>, amorton@cc.uow.edu.au (andrew morton) writes:
- |> Perhaps, but if he's such a smart cookie how come he designed an
- |> OS that will only run on little-endian machines?
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- I have heard this assertion before, but I find it very hard to believe.
- Would someone like to back it up, e.g. citing the particular casts and
- unnatural unions that make the code little-endian-only?
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- Bryan Boreham
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- In SunWorld June 1992 Dwayne Walker of Microsoft is quoted to say:
- "There is nothing that prevents Windows NT from appearing on a significant
- variety of hardware bases".
- and also:
- "I can't comment on the rumors that it is already running on SPARC, ..."
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- Not that it proves that NT can run on other than little-endian machines
- but it would make Microsoft look pretty supid if it was true.
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- Stefan Aberg radcode!sab@uunet.uu.net
- Berkeley CA
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