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To ensure portability, NT was originally written for the DEC Alpha and later ported to Intel. (It was also original created with a Pig-Latin UI and later localized to English.) Also, the Xbox360 runs a stripped-down branch of NT on big-endian PowerPC. An native ARM port should be relatively easy.



Actually MIPS was the original architecture target for NT (the DEC Alpha didn't exist yet when they started).


Apparently the very first target was ... the Intel i860: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/reviews/windows-server-2...




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