Re: Wedded to Intel
> Alpha was most successful, partly because DEC and Microsoft made the effort to keep the platform up to date, and partly because it included x86 emulation.
... and partly because DEC settled with Microsoft over Dave Cutler reusing design work he had done at DEC when implementing NT.
"""Rather than suing, Digital cut a deal with Microsoft. In the summer of 1995, Digital announced Affinity for OpenVMS, a program that required Microsoft to help train Digital NT technicians, help promote NT and Open-VMS as two pieces of a three-tiered client/server networking solution, and promise to maintain NT support for the Alpha processor. Microsoft also paid Digital between 65 million and 100 million dollars."""
http://www.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story
Biting the hand that feeds IT
