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by sillywalk 933 days ago
Also, the PRISM/MICA project got cancelled so Dave Cutler (and whomever he took with him) left for Microsoft.

Then they tried MIPS for a while, and I think(?) PRISM became the basis for the Alpha. Also the other 'minicomputers' - IBM AS/400 came out in 1988, and the HP3000 switched to PA-RISC.
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__d 933 days ago
The DECstation line was MIPS-based, and DEC sold Ultrix, a BSD-based Unix.

I used a 2100, 3100, 4000/25, and 4000/125 (?) I think. They were decent workstations for their time.

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