Not dead yet...

[Chris Adams]

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:17:47 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>From what I've read, it's more to do with Microsoft dropping support
>for NT on the Alpha.

Microsoft *needs* NT on the Alpha. NT only works if you throw hardware at
it & for many sites the only solution was buying a large Alpha box.
There's also the problem that Microsoft is trying to develop a 64-bit
version of NT but Intel has been really late delivering Merced samples,
so they were developing it on Alpha instead.

Compaq, of course, really doesn't care. I don't think they wanted to keep
funding Alpha NT development but I doubt they'd do anything to hinder
Microsoft from producing newer versions. After all, as long as they're
getting paid for the box I doubt they care what you run on it.
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