Re: [OT] Can Vista run on others than x86 and x86-64

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Hi Don,

In general the OS is still built so it could be moved to another architecture,

Yes, that was the answer i was looking for,...

but like any "portable" OS this is not a small effort.

I know,...

And like always with NT, there is a little-endian byte order requirement.

Ok, i see,...

I was asking this, because maybe someday there
will be very powerfull processor, possibly totally
different than the IA Architecture, i mean who knows,
so the operating system must be as portable as possible.
So MS ist still going the way coding the os "portable",...
Thats good to hear,...

Regards

Kerem

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"Don Burn" <burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:%23uN%238bILJHA.5232@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The hardware abstraction layer was never as much of the special glue as various authors implied. There were definitely always significant portions of the kernel conditionalized on a per processor basis. In general the OS is still built so it could be moved to another architecture, but like any "portable" OS this is not a small effort. And like always with NT, there is a little-endian byte order requirement.


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"Kerem Gümrükcü" <kareem114@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O5fEcWILJHA.5704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Alexander,

thanks for the information. What i was talking
about, was whether the Operating System is
still developed that way, that it can run on
exotic Processors for which compilers are
available. I mean is the Hardware Abstraction
Layer still modularizable/exchangeable as it was
on NT4,...long time ago,...

Regards

Kerem

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"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:uBRg3dHLJHA.3808@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Windows 2008 (Vista SP1) also has IA64 (Itanic) flavor.

"Kerem Gümrükcü" <kareem114@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O1K7mADLJHA.5692@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

i want to ask a OT question here since i
think, i will get the best answere here. I
remember the NT basis (NT4) being able
to run on different processor architectures,
because of the majority of the os (excluding
hal and other core components) written
in C. Are the Vista Kernel Components and/or
Usermode parts still able to run on other
architectures with a costumized kernel/hal layer
or has this definitly been dropped from the OS
architecture,...


Regards

Kerem

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