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by scholia 3484 days ago
> I think Linux beat them both to the point... many years ago.

Nope. Windows NT was written to be cross-platform. It wasn't even developed on an x86 processor.

And NT development started at the end of the 1980s, before Linus even thought of writing his x86-specific operating system. (Because he only had x86.)
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eikenberry 3483 days ago
Windows NT ran on ARM? That is the platform being referenced. Not just cross-platform in general.
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scholia 3483 days ago
Initial development was on the Intel i860XR RISC processor, switching to the MIPS R3000 in late 1989, and then the Intel i386 in 1990. Later it ran on DEC Alpha, PowerPC, Itanium, x86-64 and ARM. (Wikipedia)

If you have developed a portable OS, it really doesn't matter whether ARM was first or last or inbetween.

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