[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> says that in 1995 EV5's costed $2000 to $3000,
> with $500 being the pure manufacturing costs.

This is where leadership comes in.  Hudson had been built for large
volume. Palmer wanted to reserve capacity in case Alpha became high volume.

You build low cost machines, you can increase your volume. The cost per
chip drops closer to the actual manufacturing cost.


Nobody is saying that Digital could price Alpha PCs the same or lower
then 8086s. But they could have been in the same ballpark, and that MUST
include the cost of VMS and basic licenses for layered products
(decwrite, deccalc etc which back in early 1990s were still very much
current).