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Allegedly. Though, DEC had pissed away $Billions on its VAX 9000 ECL mainframe, and why fight a costly legal battle? [0] https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-eng
by sillywalk 3y ago
Allegedly. Though, DEC had pissed away $Billions on its VAX 9000 ECL mainframe, and why fight a costly legal battle?
[0] https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/death-alpha-nt https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/death-alpha-nt
[1] https://techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_alliance_with_legal_threat https://techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_...
- panick21_ 3y agoFor sure, they made a lot of really bad choices. VAX9000 is maybe the biggest one for sure. Using all that money to push PRISM/ALPHA and MICA into workstation and server and large server space would have yields them better results. That said, I'm not sure if DEC could have survived with that strategy either. What it would have done is make it so that Windows NT ends up not existing or existing in a very, very, very different way, likely in a far worse way. Lets remember that Gates didn't even believe in Virtual Memory.