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gecko
on Oct 21, 2010
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The End of x86?
That can't be correct, since I remember running Windows NT 4 on a PowerPC system.
tesseract
on Oct 21, 2010
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PowerPC (except PPC970 aka G5, as I recall) is bi-endian (configurable endianness); so are Alpha and Itanium which also had Windows NT ports.
froydnj
on Oct 22, 2010
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Alpha is most definitely not a bi-endian architecture; it's little-endian only. PowerPC chips can be either, but the vast, vast majority are big endian.
kinetik
on Oct 22, 2010
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Incorrect. The Cray T3E used Alpha processors in big-endian mode.
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