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Re: VMS on ALPHA PC's

#4509
From: Dave Bernard
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:06
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>>There are more than enough people in DEC that will trade effort for hardware.
>>Go to the end of the Queue...
>>
>>:-)

>Since there are allready enough volunteers to write EISA device drivers
>for VMS, I volunteer for AXP PC OSF/1 ( same conditions : hw for sw )...
>Imagine a big specmark PC at home with 3 disks...what OS shall I have
>tonight ?

Since I understand DEC will be licensing Alpha, as well as VMS to whoever
is willing to sign up and pay for it, why not buy the rights to do so, and
then yourself sell VMS, OSF/1, MVS, whatever, on the AXP PC?  You might just
have a market?

	Dave Bernard
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From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
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Subject: Re: VMS on ALPHA PC's
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Date: 28 Jan 93 13:06:20 GMT
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