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

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <00bb899d$0$27930$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> I was under the impression that the shift to windows occured later
> during Palmer's era when he threw in the towel and started to sell the
> company away.

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.

> 
> Back in 1991-1992, Windows was still at DOS/Windows 3.1 with limited
> networking, and word processing that even DECwrite could compete
> against. Microsoft didn't have a decent email system.
> 
> I can understand Digital having given up on office desktops by
> 1991/1992, 

this I can't understand.

> but for the rest, the focus on Windows came later.