![]() ![]() The machine this build was retrieved from was upgraded from build 2209 by launching winnt32.exe from the axp64 directory. The currently available installation media originates from an internal Microsoft network share ( \\NTDev\Release\MAIN\Usa\2210\axp64chk\pro). An archive containing a large portion of the binaries from this build was uploaded on, followed by a folder dump of the original installation media and a reconstructed disc image on 26 June 2023. The hard drive containing the preinstalled checked/debug compile of this build, originally installed by a Microsoft employee, was found by a Virtually Fun blog reader, and was later demonstrated running on a DEC PWS 500 workstation. It is the earliest known preserved 64-bit build of Windows overall, predating server build 2462, the next available 64-bit build (although compiled for the Itanium and not the DEC Alpha), by a year. It is distinct from prior DEC Alpha builds of Windows 2000 and earlier, which used a 32-bit application binary interface on the otherwise 64-bit processor, comparable to Linux's x32 ABI on AMD64 systems. Windows XP build 2210 is an early build of Windows XP and the only available build of the 64-bit port of Windows NT to the DEC Alpha-an internal project which aimed to prepare the operating system to run natively on a 64-bit architecture before the Itanium processor design was finalized.
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