[SunRescue] WinNT on Alpha

[Mike Nicewonger]

The truth is it's a shame, the Alpha is a rocking cool machine, other than
just serving up files and printer services and the other jobs NT is supposed
to do, there is little software for the Alpha, I looked, thought it would be
nice to outfit a bunch of machines in our office with NT on AlphaStaion
200's since the staff is used to M$ products, but, no office productivity
software was to be found. Pity, these machines are very nice, just trapped
in the wasteland of big puter companies and their greed.

Of course I haven't mentioned the UNIX OS's, but there still are no office
like productivity packages out there for these nice boxen.

Putting on my asbestos undies, I am sure there be fire out there after that
message.

Mike N



--Mike N
-----Original Message-----
From: Bjrn Ramqvist <brt at osk.sema.se>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 4:38 AM
Subject: [SunRescue] WinNT on Alpha


>Matthew Haas wrote:
>>
>> > Maybe that too?  In the case of NT for example, they even seemed to
kill MIPS support,
>> > so it's now just Alpha and x86.
>>
>> Didn't Compaq kill off the Alpha port of NT? So it is now successfully
>> uniplatform again?
>
>I don't want to stir up the discussion again, but from what I've seen,
>Compaq did announce that they officially "stopped development of Windows
>NT on Alpha".
>But, when reading the fineprint, they just stopped the NT 4.0
>development on Alpha.
>
>So, at the end, the actual message was that they just stopped the 32-bit
>development and intead going for the "o'so hyped" 64-bit WinNT. (Or was
>that the other way around?)
>
>
>It was a while since I've read this on Compaq's site, so times may have
>changed even further.
>Not that I think WinNT on Alpha was a very useable idea, but the fact
>that it attracted some attention to a otherwise good platform, was for
>the better. That's probably one thing that made the Alpha survive in
>it's early days.
>I could imagine lots of people nowadays know what an "Alpha" is.
>
>
> /Regards, Bjorn
>
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