Comments on: Windows NT demo on the DECstation 5000 https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/06/15/windows-nt-demo-on-the-dec-mips-5000/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:08:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/06/15/windows-nt-demo-on-the-dec-mips-5000/comment-page-1/#comment-332166 Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:46:08 +0000 http://virtuallyfun.com/?p=12830#comment-332166 In reply to Michael Engel.

When the machine crashes about an hour twenty four minutes in, we see this, and this, which look more like SRM.

It would be a matter if securing media, but I don’t think any of that survived. He was using the available binaries (12/1991?) from the CD, but his own loader/hal/drivers

]]> By: Michael Engel https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/06/15/windows-nt-demo-on-the-dec-mips-5000/comment-page-1/#comment-332154 Mon, 19 Jun 2023 19:54:09 +0000 http://virtuallyfun.com/?p=12830#comment-332154 What a great video, thanks a lot!

NT would be fun to run on my DECstations here – I didn’t know that the port originally started on the PMAX (5000/200) machines, not the Maxines (Personal DECstation 5000).

But it seems that none of the DECstation NT versions ever escaped from Microsoft (and one would probably also need an ARC firmware version for the machines)?

I think the MIPS support on the NT3.1 prereleases are built for MIPS, Inc. machines such as the RC2030 or the R4000 Magnums (though there are very few places in which DECstations are mentioned).

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