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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.171308.28350@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:13:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.200233.7141@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- > However, I will point otu that Microsoft is no better. I am
- >sure the DEC is not feel too great to be taken for a ride by Microsoft.
- >Their Alpha PC is supposed to be released with Windows NT. Microsoft
- >said repeatedly that NT would be out long before now. Now, the Alpha
- >PC is complete but no OS to run on it. They will miss their window (again)
- >as their chip loses a lot of the publicity and performance edges it once
- >had. A lot of people that count on DEC (such as myself) were counting on
- >Microsoft to get NT out the door so that the Alpha PC could help some of
- >DEC's financial woes.
-
- They should have done what SGI did. When SGI came out with a new
- workstation, that they advertised as an NT platform, they also ported
- IRIX (their Unix variant) to it. Good thing they did, too! Of
- course, their new machine was MIPS R4000 based, so it was an easier
- port than the one DEC must have to get Ultrix on the Alpha.
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