[Info-vax] Did Ken Olsen kill Alpha?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4ea09f48$0$32679$c3e8da3$12bcf670 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> Remember that the 9000 wasn't about the ECL technology, it was pitched
> as a mainframe killer. It is ironic that at the same time DEC wanted to
> battle IBM mainframes, IBM came out with its AS400s as "VAX killers".

   IBM came out with three different systems known as "VAX killers".
   Only DEC thought VAXen were special hardware, but to the customer
   what IBM couldn't kill was VMS.

   The only thing special about VAXen was that only VAXen could run
   VMS.  Once VMS ran on Alpha, VAX died quickly.

   Even 15 years of counter recommendations haven't yet killed VMS.