[rescue] DECstation 5000h

[Eric Dittman]

> > 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.
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Eric Dittman
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