[Info-vax] [OT] Early 64-bit test build of Windows 2000 for Alpha found

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-05-19, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <u47q84$lvps$1 at dont-email.me>,
> clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:
>
>> Before NT was released for Alpha, Microsoft was doing early 64-bit
>> test builds with Windows 2000 on Alpha.
>
> Presumably, you mean "Before NT was released for Itanium ..."? 
>

No. I meant Alpha.

Check out the original design specifications for NT. It was designed as
a very architecture neutral operating system and Cutler brought across
a lot of ideas from Prism/MICA.

In fact about the only major idea he didn't bring across was the use of
Pillar (or something comparable) instead of C as the SIL.

We lost a major opportunity to establish a viable alternative to C because
of that and the security of our computing infrastructure is poorer because
of it.

>> PS: BTW, am I the only one who thinks that Windows 10 font quality 
>> is actually inferior to the font quality on Windows 7?
>
> I think the Windows 10 fonts are optimised for higher-resolution screens.
>

Interesting, thanks. What I can tell you is that they don't look as good
as the Windows 7 fonts (to me at least) on normal resolution monitors.

Simon.

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