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Intel ended up buying Digital Equipments chip making business.. There where patent disputes and such. According to this article which describes the sale, wind
by acomjean 7y ago
Intel ended up buying Digital Equipments chip making business..
There where patent disputes and such.
According to this article which describes the sale, windows NT ran on alpha.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-28-fi-47463-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-28-fi-47463...
- jsolson 7y agoI remember getting an MSDN CD wallet that included a build of Windows NT for Alpha. Of course, I never had an Alpha on which to run it.
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agoAccording to my memory they have been sold with NT (4.0?) in Germany by a long gone PC retailer called Vobis. I think for about 5000 DM.
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agoFound it! [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170408085131/https://katzentier.de/_misc/Vobis/8%201997-07-24/10.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20170408085131/https://katzentie... Hellish price!
- hinkley 7y agoYeah, I used NT 4.0 on Alpha when NT was still new.
- scholia 7y agoOne of the nice things was that you could run Windows NT on a DUAL PROCESSOR PC with two Alpha chips. This was such an attractive idea I thought of buying one. However, when I did a very quick trial, it didn't make any noticeable difference to my very simple workloads (mostly Microsoft Office).