XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
   >Of all the major OSes for Alpha, Windows NT was the only one   
   >that couldn’t take advantage of the 64-bit architecture.   
      
   Actually, Windows took good advantage of the 64-bit architecture:   
   "64-bit Windows was initially developed on the Alpha AXP."   
      
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)