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

[Michael Kraemer]

Neil Rieck schrieb:
> Question: Is is possible that PRISM was killed but Alpha was still
> alive and Ken Olsen didn't know it?
> Answer: Yes
> 
> Excerpt from Page 216 of DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC
> I organized Alpha as a program with me as program manager. This had
> never worked before in Digital; it had been tried many times, never
> worked. You may remember the old saying that Digital ran by the golden
> rule, which was, "he that has the gold makes the rules." Yet the Alpha
> Program was a team of maybe a half dozen people with never more than a
> million and a half bucks to speak of. But the time was right to get
> people aligned around a common effort at engineering.
> 
> ( so the group was small enough to hide, but there is more... )

I find it hard to believe that serious CPU development can be done
with half a dozen people and and an annual budget of $1M.