Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins)]

In article <qhk794ksg7.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Eric Smith  <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote:
>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:

>> I should have stated the first mainstream 64-bit
>> processor as in a 64-bit processor that can run
>> a mainstream OS natively.

>You're saying that Windows NT wasn't a mainstream OS???

Wasn't NT on the alpha only a 32 bit OS, however?  Something at the back
of my mind says that it never really was extended to 64 bits (or was it
extended later?)

hawk

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