[Info-vax] Continued development of PDP-10 architecture [was Re: Hard links

[John Dallman]

In article <uagvj1$b7r$1 at news.misty.com>, bqt at softjar.se (Johnny
Billquist) wrote:

> On 2023-08-03 14:10, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > I still wish Prism had become a thing. That would have changed a 
> > lot of things and (IMHO) for the better, both at hardware and 
> > especially software level.
> 
> Weren't bits of Prism reused in Alpha? Or am I mixing it up with 
> something else now?

Bits of the hardware design, yes. The OS design was abandoned by DEC; the
concept re-appeared in Windows NT's subsystem architecture, but over time,
only the Windows subsystem has survived. 

John