[rescue] DECstation 5000h

[dave at cca.org]

dittman at dittman.net writes:

>> > 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.

>That could very well be why.  The MIPS systems really where
>just interim systems until Mica (and later Alpha) were ready.

Well, that's how it worked out, but I think the MIPS machine
was an attempt at a long-term platform. Much competition between
divisions.

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