[rescue] DECstation 5000h
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net
Mon Jul 15 21:59:37 CDT 2002
> > NEC claimed that NT was developed on their r4k machines. And since
> > the shipped copy of NT would run on NEC's machines, but not Digital's
> > DECstation 5000 line, I'm inclined to believe NEC.
>
> Agreed, but I did *see* it running on a couple of DS5000s.
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.
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