From the AppleInsider forum comes an interesting discovery about ZFS and Apple. A user who has the Leopard WWDC preview searched the system with Spotlight and found a mention of ZFS. He says: "There is no file system bundle for it, nor is there a mount utility or any other one (no fsck, now newfs, etc.). There is, however, a changed vnode.h."
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Member since:2006-02-28
I known that the NT kernel works on those archs, although I do not think that it ever has been ported to 68k. Nevertheless there is nomore WindowsXP or even Windows2000 support for anything but x86/x86_64/Itanium. And since the kernel evolved since NT3.5 and NT4 I am pretty sure MS does not care for the other archs anymore.
Member since:2005-08-26
Member since:2006-08-11
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there is nomore WindowsXP or even Windows2000 support for anything but x86/x86_64/Itanium. And since the kernel evolved since NT3.5 and NT4 I am pretty sure MS does not care for the other archs anymore.
Well, I'm afraid they cared a lot for the PPC architecture: the apple G5s were recently used as developer systems for the Xbox360. Looks like they ran a streamlined NT kernel derived from the mentioned NT version for PPC (Motorola and other RISC machines, not Apple's).
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2005-06-29
You will find for example lots of processor architecture defines in windows.h (MPPC, 68k!) and Windows does not support those.
Ehum, Windows NT runs on Alpha, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS, and the relatively unknown Clipper architecture (among others), so mentions of those in Windows is anything but exciting.