NT4 software for MIPS 4x00

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NT4 software for MIPS 4x00

#1 Post by Bookworm » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:13 pm

Installing Windows NT Workstation 4.0 on a WorkPad Z50 may not be possible, but my CD does have the MIPS R4x00 version, as well as intel, PowerPC, and something called "Alpha".

If I can get it to work, what software is available? I have a lot of NT 4 compatible software (SmartSuite, Office, Works Suite), but as usual it's all for intel. Did MicroSoft even sell home/personal or office software for non-intel versions of Windows?

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Re: NT4 software for MIPS 4x00

#2 Post by ARD » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:29 pm

Alpha was the processor used by DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation).
They were good machines but expensive as hell back then.
As far as I can tell, MS didn't make a whole lot of applications for non x86 platforms.
A lot of other companies did, however.
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Re: NT4 software for MIPS 4x00

#3 Post by Temetka » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:17 am

I had a dual 533MHz Alpha Box back in the day.

Man that was one sweet system. I ran NT4.0 Workstation on it and was able to run a lot of programs written for x86 architecture using FX!32 binary translation.

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