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The big Unix vendors in the 90s were pretty good at both... PA-RISC & HP-UX, SPARC & Solaris, Alpha & Tru64
by planteen 10y ago
The big Unix vendors in the 90s were pretty good at both... PA-RISC & HP-UX, SPARC & Solaris, Alpha & Tru64
- flukus 10y agoThey all focused on selling service contracts and not hardware didn't they?
- coredog64 10y agoDEC was also responsible for the AXP port of Windows NT. Compaq pulled the plug right before the Windows 2000 RTM release. That in turn led to the awesome FX!32 tool that could emulate (and then translate) x86 software to the Alpha instruction set. There were cases where the transmogrified software ran faster than it did natively on x86.