Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 19:58 UTC
For year now, the x86 microprocessor market has been dominated by Intel and AMD, and the rivalry between the two companies forced both to be innovative in order to gain a competitive advantage over the other - benefiting customers. With the rise of 'mobile internet devices' and low-power budget notebooks, this new market will be enriched by not only Via, but also nVIDIA.
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2006-06-11
I was thinking that I read a long time ago that NT wasn't originally developed on x86 hardware. This bit from Wikipedia confirms it:
In order to prevent Intel x86-specific code from slipping into the operating system by developers used to developing on x86 chips, Windows NT 3.1 was initially developed using non-x86 development systems and then ported to the x86 architecture.
NT runs on 3 architechtures right now: x86, x64, and IA64. Portability doesn't seem to be an issue. Userland may be a whole different issue though.
Edited 2008-06-06 04:44 UTC