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by thequux 265 days ago
Years ago, I had a CD marked "Windows 2000 for Alpha RC1", which suggests that it was cancelled quite late in the release cycle.
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It was canceled essentially overnight by Compaq higher-ups, teams at Microsoft and Compaq learnt when they came to office. It was present on last release candidate before RTM, because it was essentially the only 64bit platform to actually fixup 32bit issues that prevented 64bit address space in earlier NT releases.