re: #196 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

I was attending DECUS meetings right when the Alpha chip came out. DEC had a very good microprocessor chip, one of the best relational database products (Rdb), knew that the world was heading towards networks of microprocessors rather than “big iron”, and also had some other good products and a good reputation in general. And somehow essentially pissed it all away in ~5 years during the 90s.

The Alpha was so cool. I still have a copy of VMS for Alpha just in case I get lucky. I think I still have a copy of RDB for VAX tucked away in the archive as well.