[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[Michael Austin]

Bob Koehler wrote:
>  Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>> As for x86 systems hardware: it's already been pointed out that the
>>> innards of any reasonably modern low-end Alpha (from any AlphaStation
>>> onward) were remarkably PC-like in terms of chips and functionalities,
>> The Alpha was intended to be able to run Windows.  AFAIK few people ever 
>> did but the possibility was there!
> 
>    The Alpha was designed to be OS neuteral.  It still is.
> 


And if would dig back through the cobwebs in your brains you would 
recall that Alpha was the PRIMARY development platform for WNT from it's 
inception in early 91/92 until the late 90's (98/99 timeframe IIRC - my 
cobwebs fog things up too).

And there were lots of people in the early '90s that did run W-NT on 
Windows. One of the 2100's I owned for a long time was initially a WNT 
box. (Never while I owned it though :) as I immediately dumped it and 
installed VMS.)