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Or the built-in ability to run 16-bit DOS/Windows apps on NT4 running on MIPS Magnum R4000. I had one for a while and it was rather nifty at the time...

And then, as you mention, FX!32 for running 32-bit apps (slowly) on NT/Alpha - I had it running on a Multia for a while. Those were some fun tiny machines.



A friend had an EV5 (iirc), and performance wasn't too bad for the time. FX!32 was actually pretty fast all things considered.


It would have been interesting to see how the QuickTransit[1] tech would have evolved, had IBM not bought and basically killed it.

Apple used it (as "Rosetta") to run PPC binaries on x86, but it supported other CPU architectures, both as emulated platform and native targets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit




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