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by the8472 2314 days ago
Since windows was mostly running on x86 and the memory controllers were in the northbridge back then even multi-socket systems wouldn't have been affected by NUMA. Moving them on-die only happened later.
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There were NUMA x86 rigs long before the memory controller moved to the CPU. IBM xSeries and serverworks chipsets from around 2000 had NUMA topologies.