[Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight

[John Hearns]

RE: [Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight
>> Add one letter to VMS and you get ..... WNT! 
  >yep, my brain says that i was confused before, must have some list inodes in 
  >here somewhere 

  >bredroll 

  At the time DEC (or Digital as they had become by then) were very much onside as MS made a big deal out of the fact NT supported Alpha. So they paraded Dave Cutler about.

  If memory serves I think the first NT prototype wasn't even on a ia32 but on some chip which would have been more familiar in a VAX.

  At one stage, a lot of the computing community were all for NT for this reason. I was enthusiastic myself...

  A transition from familiar VMS to NT was on the cards for many big academic/scientific computing centres,

  not bothering with that Unix stuff which was for comp. sci. types.

  And as you say, NT would run on Intel, Alpha and MIPS.

  Methinks Microsoft wasn't wise to drop Alpha/MIPS.

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