[Info-vax] Microsoft On ARM Failure (was Re: VSI licensing policy (again))

[John Dallman]

In article <ir39oeFmc42U1 at mid.individual.net>, bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
(Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> Alpha Windows was released before any applications were ready.  
> Most people I knew who actually bought one ended up dumping 
> Windows and running Linux. Why? Because Linux had applications.

It got used in some specialised fields, because it was faster than Intel
at the time. That advantage disappeared when Intel and AMD got into a
clockspeed battle in 1997, and when Compaq took over DEC, they weren't
interested in it. Microsoft continued to use Alpha-based machines to
develop 64-bit Windows until they had a reasonable number of Itanium
machines. 

John