[Info-vax] Did Ken Olsen kill Alpha?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <j7qf7f$alv$1 at solani.org>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:

> The whole DECstation line was rather successful
> in the technical computing segment,
> but DEC treated it like a stop gap measure and it withered
> away as soon as the Alpha hype set in.

   I can't really blame DEC for not wanting to bet it's future on an SGI
   product.  I don't think anyone was surprised when SGI bought MIPS.

   Meanwhile Ultrix-MIPS was "just another UNIX" in a market already
   dominated by Sun and others.  When we got Ultrix-MIPS, our customers
   complained that anything from DEC wasn't a "real UNIX".

   I worked with a project that went from all VAX/VMS to SGI/IRIX
   except for a few realtime VMS systems.  Now they've gone from
   SGI/IRIX to Sun/Solaris.

   I'm working with systems now that went from VAX/VMS to Sun/Solaris
   and are now planning to move to x86/Linux.

   Meanwhile those VAX/VMS realtime systems I was working with still keep 
   on keeping on, with a few Alpha/VMS systems that got into the mix.