[rescue] now: Alpha NT

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:45:25AM -0400, Chris Petersen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:42:53PM -0500, Leslie Connally wrote:
> > >Rumour has it that /that/
> > >played heavily into Microsoft's dropping of WinNT Alpha...
> > 
> > _I_ heard that MS demanded x million dollars to port 4.0 and DEC said
> > 'screw you'.  Urban Myth ?
> > 
> 
> Essentially this is a piece of it, from what I understood.  That x millions
> was to cover development costs and was truly in the form of free hardware,
> programming staff, facilities, etc...While steep, this is not completely
> unusual (but rather upfront) for the development of software to support your
> given hardware platform.  

Remember too that MS had just finished scamming IBM about half a
billion for their "work" on OS/2.  So maybe they were just looking to
take another ride on the gravy train.

./patrick