DEC 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!

DEC 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.