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Re:Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP by panick21_ on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:58PM (#37754533)
Killed by Ken Olson? That doesn't really make sense? They still had the PC division in like 1994 long after Ken was gone? Or am I getting the timeline wrong? Maybe just slowed it.

I haven't yet listened to those Oral histories, but thanks for pointing out another that's focused on DEC.

Love those oral histories. I wish sometimes they were longer and asked some more in detail question about certain things. But I guess you can't keep people for 10h straight.

Edit: Where the hell is the video for Part 1? Doesn't exist?

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Re:Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP by rasz on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @04:53PM (#37757423)
From what I understand Ken killed the idea of using cheap commodity parts and moved PC division hardware design inhouse thus turning profit making venture into huge money sink.

Part 1 doesnt exist in video form :(

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Re:Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP by panick21_ on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @06:20PM (#37758427)
The document I linked in my top-level post suggest that PC division was doing Ok by 1994 but that document is written by an insider who was not directly working on the PC stuff.

> Part 1 doesnt exist in video form :(

Guess I have to go old school and read it :)

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