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In article <1993Jan7.200233.7141@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>	However, I will point otu that Microsoft is no better.  I am
>sure the DEC is not feel too great to be taken for a ride by Microsoft.
>Their Alpha PC is supposed to be released with Windows NT.  Microsoft
>said repeatedly that NT would be out long before now.  Now, the Alpha
>PC is complete but no OS to run on it.  They will miss their window (again)
>as their chip loses a lot of the publicity and performance edges it once
>had.  A lot of people that count on DEC (such as myself) were counting on
>Microsoft to get NT out the door so that the Alpha PC could help some of
>DEC's financial woes.

They should have done what SGI did.  When SGI came out with a new
workstation, that they advertised as an NT platform, they also ported
IRIX (their Unix variant) to it.  Good thing they did, too!  Of
course, their new machine was MIPS R4000 based, so it was an easier
port than the one DEC must have to get Ultrix on the Alpha.
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