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Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Didn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.

It's a neat kernel, shame about the Windows on top of it.

[–] octoblade@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, porting the kernel is the "easy" part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.

[–] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

Gotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

And MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.