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Well, I guess at the time there just wasn't any demand for Windows for Alpha or MIPS workstations. PCs had huge demand.
by kyberias 9y ago
Well, I guess at the time there just wasn't any demand for Windows for Alpha or MIPS workstations. PCs had huge demand.
- pjmlp 9y agoThe happening of free UNIX clones also helped, as the companies that might have transitioned to such Windows systems, rather migrated to BSD and Linux distributions instead.
- scruffyherder 9y agoOh there was, just people with big pockets. Have some application written in VB6? Need it to go faster where money is no object? Get VB for the Dec Alpha. Although I've never seen anyone do that, but there was such a thing. Now when it came to a massive DEC Alpha to run SQL Server, then absolutely. It was the ultimate hardware solution to a software scalability problem, and it was not cheap.