[Simh] slightly off-topic question

[Phil Mendelsohn]

Tim Shoppa wrote:

> For a while internal to DEC there was a project called PRISM that
> would've been like a MIPS processor but running an OS called
> Emerald, which could execute VAX/VMS stuff too. But that's a pipe
> dream that has been dead for like twenty years.

IIRC, Alpha was decided to be the strategy pursued instead of PRISM.

This was also, IIRC, a highly "electro-political" move, and was part of 
certain big names at DEC making career moves, some around that time, 
some slightly later.

(Boy, I hope mentioning this doesn't start a flame war from starting the 
way it will.)

Ah well, it's all spilt milk under the bridge...

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