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Re:The End of x86? by gecko on Thursday October 21, 2010 @05:59PM (#1817628)
That can't be correct, since I remember running Windows NT 4 on a PowerPC system.
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Re:The End of x86? by tesseract on Thursday October 21, 2010 @06:09PM (#1817658)
PowerPC (except PPC970 aka G5, as I recall) is bi-endian (configurable endianness); so are Alpha and Itanium which also had Windows NT ports.
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Re:The End of x86? by froydnj on Thursday October 21, 2010 @11:27PM (#1818451)
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.
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Re:The End of x86? by kinetik on Friday October 22, 2010 @12:19AM (#1818561)
Incorrect. The Cray T3E used Alpha processors in big-endian mode.
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