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by iuyfgtrghjk 5744 days ago
VMS also ran on Dec-Alpha.

The main problem was that a single Alpha could replace an awful lot of VAX HW and so to claw the profit back, the license fees meant a VMS Alpha was about 3x the price of the same machine running NT.

We used to buy NT Alphas and install Linux - to compete with Sun Sparcs.

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Yep, later on - AXP also developed by DEC with VMS in mind.