From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 17:52:38 +1300, David Goodwin wrote:   
      
   > You've yet to give a good reason to believe [Windows NT] isn't   
   > portable. The fact it has been released on six architectures and   
   > publicly demonstrated on a seventh would suggest you are wrong.   
      
   The fact that none of them survived reinforces my point. The ports   
   survived only long enough for Microsoft to claim bragging rights, and   
   then expired not long after.   
      
   Linux long ago surpassed that score, several times over. And that’s   
   just counting ports that continue to be maintained today.   
      
   > As you have previously established, Microsoft is a for-profit   
   > company. Their goal is to make profit, not to support as many   
   > platforms as possible for as long as possible whether or not there   
   > is worthwhile demand for Windows on those platforms.   
      
   See, there you go, apologizing for Windows’ lack of portability while   
   at the same time still trying to claim it really is portable.   
      
   >> I already mentioned that MIPS processors outship x86 by about 3:1,   
   >> last I checked. You wouldn?t call x86 “flying pigs rare”, would   
   >> you?   
   >   
   > Set top boxes and routers were not the target market for Windows in   
   > the 90s, and they are clearly not a market Microsoft is interested   
   > in pursuing today.   
      
   See, there you go, conceding my point again. While still strenuously   
   trying to deny it.   
      
   You’re thinking in terms of low-margin products using MIPS, aren’t   
   you? While that may be partially true, there are also some pretty   
   high-margin ones indeed.   
      
   > This is fine as as profit is not the goal and "for fun" is a good   
   > enough motivation. Microsoft clearly has other goals and   
   > motiviations.   
      
   “For fun” may be an excuse for the survival of the Alpha port. But   
   Linux support exists for many of those platforms (including MIPS)   
   precisely because companies are making a profit from it.   
      
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