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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That doesn't prevent MS from simply keeping the defines for other archs for people that still target the old architectures in one way or another.
Exactly. Other than that, what if a high-profile customer wants a custom version of NT to run it on a non-x86 architecture? Do you think Microsoft would not help them out?
In fact, that's how NT got ported to that Clipper architecture.
Edited 2006-08-23 15:26
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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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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.