[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Michael Kraemer]

Bob Koehler schrieb:
> In article <hejthi$cp5$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> 
>>DEC were in bed with M$ long before Palmer.
>>Think of the ACE consortium (DEC,M$,Compaq,...) promoting
>>Mips and NT. IIRC an early version of NT even ran on DECstations.
> 
> 
>    I recall the ACE consortium supporting OSF-1 on MIPS as a standard
>    OS and chip to rival MS-DOS on x86.  Then adding other UNIX on other 
>    chips, before falling apart.

ACE was focused on Mips (and a bit x86) and NT (and a bit Unix).
They fell apart when DEC, being one of the heavier weights,
went Alpha.

>    Early versions of NT were supposed to run on x86, Alpha, MIPS,
>    PPC, ..., they were all supposed to ship on the same CD on the
>    same date.  x86 shipped first even though MS used Alpha heavily
>    as a development platform, then the other chip vendors all dropped
>    out.  I only recall x86 and Alpha versions of NT ever shipping. 

WNT 4.0 CDs have executables for all four flavours.
I wouldn't call that "early".