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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 07:06

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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It ran on the Alpha at one time, but nobody much cared.

	Motorola cared (at least one large bit of it) did and had even had a
division wide desktop standard based on NT on Alpha[1] (they didn't want to
buy processors when they were busy making them) all planned and just about
to roll out when Microsoft announced the end of the Alpha port.

[1] We tried really hard to make it Linux and StarOffice but Star Division
wouldn't say in writing that StarOffice would handle any MS document,
Microsoft would say that Office would. Testing that showed the opposite did
not trump words on a contract.

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