Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died at 84

Re:Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died at 84 by ctkrohn on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:24AM (#2192067)

Ah yes, forgot about the Alpha port of NT. It's a little-known fact that Windows NT ran on non-Intel architectures: besides the Alpha version, there were MIPS and PowerPC ports.

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Re:Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died at 84 by dfghjkfgh on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:46AM (#2192110)

Due to some sort of internal Dec sales war you could buy the same hardware running VMS($$$$),Ultrix($$$),or NT($) - we bought NT and wiped the machines then installed Linux.

They gave you Sparc ultra performance for 1/2 the price.

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Re:Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died at 84 by arethuza on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @04:44AM (#2192454)

The Alphas we had (lovely boxes - especially the mid range "server" we had) were running OSF/1 rather than Ultrix - was that yet another option?

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Re:Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died at 84 by rbanffy on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @07:50AM (#2192665)

OSF/1 morphed into Digital Unix and then into Tru64. I have seen Alpha boxes running NT, Linux and OpenVMS.

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