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

[Michael Moroney]

Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:

>This page, as well as others, claim the back-porting of WindowsNT to
>Alpha was part of the settlement. Microsoft was the true beneficiary
>of this deal when Compaq decided to walk away from the WindowsNT on
>Alpha business.

I remember it as Microsoft cancelling NT on Alpha after Compaq did
something (I don't remember what) to piss Microsoft off.

There were persistant rumors when I was in Compaq/late Digital that
the sources to VMS were part of the IP that M$ had access to, with the
idea that they could use the clustering technology, but M$ could never
figure it out.