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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Al Kossow   
   Re: VAX   
   05 Aug 25 05:37:22   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 03:32:52 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:   
      
   > MIPS products came out of DECWRL (the research group started to build   
   > Titan) and were stopgaps until the "real" architecture came out   
   > (Cutler's out of DECWest)   
   > I don't think it ever got much love out of DEC corporate and were just   
   > done so DEC didn't completely get their lunch eaten in the Unix   
   > workstation market.   
      
   There were many in high places at DEC who didn’t like Unix at all. Dave   
   Cutler was one of them, and I think Ken Olsen, right at the top, as well.   
      
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