What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2040
And Alpha. MS funded the software development on the Alpha. NT was going to replace DOS. Why be picky w.r.t. CPU architecture?
Sigh! VMS was already dead.
I am sure others will disagree, but I don't think any of this was decided on the merit of the quality of the products. NT came a lot later after the MS-IBM split and...
No they weren't. There wasn't any profiting to consider; DEC was going to get sold to Compaq as soon as the profitable hard-software had been sold and everything else stripped down to the Tech Support center.
Sigh! Because Carlybaby did everything she could to regress the biz back to the ink biz. Any corporate knowledge that dealt with non-expendable items seems to have been scrubbed out of their woodwork. The OS biz is not a business that deals with expendables. It is a product that is tuned and has replacement parts and slowly changes over time depending on how it is used. Each copy of an OS is unique and not like any other because the usage conforms the soft-hardware.
It something like shoes. The company starts out shipping identical pairs. But, over time, each pair becomes unique. When this company fixes the shoes, each pair remains unique and conformed to the single customer.
I get so frustrated with myself because I cannot seem to explain this well.
BAH
You have a very exalted view of the overall importance of DEC as it was when you...
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What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2041
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