Bruce is indeed correct.  IBM, Compaq, HP and others do not ship their machines with NT.  Rather, they give you the opportunity to install NT, along with other OSes, at extra cost.  

What Joe was alluding to is the recent decision to no longer have NT available on (developed for) PowerPC stuff.  It has gone by the wayside, along with MIPS support.  Only Intel and Alpha are now going to be supported.  This decision was reached because of the very small volume of NT actually on MIPS and PowerPC.  BTW, Alpha is about 5% of the NT market.

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From:   toback2[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Monday, 03 February, 1997 10:18 AM
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Subject:        Re: Recent announcements

Joe Geiser writes:

>From IBM - They have scrapped shipping Windows NT on the PowerPC and will
>only ship it on their Intel-based machines.  I won't get into the fray of
>Intel vs. Apple, but it makes me wonder if it flew as well as it was
>billed on the PowerPC, or did Big Blue just mess it up?

A small correction: IBM is not shipping Windows NT on ANY machines -- at
least, not NT Server. In a decision made last November, IBM and several
other companies decided not to ship NT with their computers. They cited
excessive support costs as the reason. The article was in the November 25
issue of InfoWorld; unfortunately, it's no longer available on-line. The
same article said that HP was drastically reducing its bundling of NT,
for the same reason.

-- Bruce


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