DEC would have been profoundly wise if they had recognized and adopted ARM, porting VMS to it. Maybe Cutler would have stayed in that early fait-accomplis. The

DEC would have been profoundly wise if they had recognized and adopted ARM, porting VMS to it. Maybe Cutler would have stayed in that early fait-accomplis. They also never would have spent the money on Alpha, or wasted time selling MIPS workstations.