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Both DEC and HP were pushing for NT. (I interned at dec and worked briefly at HP while both were still pushing Alpha and PA)

HP foodnote: HP had this vision of NT at the desktop and HP/UX server iron. Folks preferred Solaris over HP/UX so that was their idea to adopt windows. The guy at hp pushing that agenda, Belluzo, eventually left and went to Microsoft.