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

[Bob Koehler]

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.

   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.