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Strange Video - Windows on the Nokia Internet Tablets? 'Natively'?
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Rocketman
2008-03-13 , 01:14
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Total Hoax. The NITs use a completely different instruction set than is supported by any modern version of Windows. Haven't looked at the video, but it was likely created with VNC or Remote Desktop. These days, Windows only runs on x86 and the 64bit variations of same. The Itanium 64 bit architecture is still supported (for various interpretations of supported) on some high end server versions of Windows. NT4 was really the last major version of Windows that supported really "different" architectures. You could run it on a pretty wide variety of MIPs, Alpha and PowerPC architectures, as well as x86. I remember playing around with a DEC Alpha workstation running NT4 in college. It absolutely blew away any x86 box the school had at the time in terms of raw interger and float performance and had a pretty revolutionary piece of software (for the time) called FX!32 that would translate x86 instructions at better than 50% of native performance, most of the time.
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