[rescue] DECstation 5000h

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Jul 15 22:06:16 CDT 2002


On July 15, Eric Dittman wrote:
> I believe you Dave, since engineers at DEC have admitted to
> working on a port themselves.  What I haven't seen anyone
> discuss is _WHY_ the port was dropped.  My guess is the
> work was diverted to getting NT working on the upcoming
> Alpha.

  Could it have been "hedging the bets" in case the Alpha was delayed?
I wonder if the timing would have been right for that.

     -Dave

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