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Originally posted by ShawnZ
actually, windows NT is very portable, they just haven't compiled windows for any platform other than x86 and IA64
They have. They don't do it anymore. Windows NT4 was available for MIPS (SGI, pre-Alpha DEC) and DEC Alpha. It was one of "those things" that didn't go anywhere because the applications simply were not there. There wasn't any kind of emulation environment either.
To date, Apple remains the only vendor that has successfully pulled off a hardware platform change.