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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT
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- References: <1992Dec21.154448.18823@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> <C0C8C9.5E9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan05.061510.21021@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:40:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan05.061510.21021@microsoft.com> blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:
- >Nope. This would be prohibitively expensive. There is an Intel emulator,
- >but that is only for DOS and Win16 apps. Win32 apps and the the OS itself
- >are all compiled for the target platform.
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- So I take this to mean that you wouldn't be able to buy, say, Excel
- 6 in a shrink wrap and run it on your choice of platform? You'd need
- to get Excel 6 (Intel) or Excel 6 (Alpha) depending on the machine you
- own?
-
- Hmmmm....
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