Ireland (boh.delete@this.outlook.ie) on April 7, 2017 9:50 am wrote:
>at least. The strange
> thing about it was though, that Dave Cutler at Digital had been against the idea of doing the new, cheaper workstation
> product line within DEC. However, when he had changed over to working at Microsoft, he became an advocate for
> doing a version of Windows for the MIPS processor machines, to run NT on them. Maybe, it was when he traveled
> from the VAX/VMS side of the galaxy, back down to the IBM/DOS end of the galaxy, . . . that he suddenly too,
> discovered the pressing need for that in-between area of hardware and product lines.

Not strange at all. It's great to have high-margin products. At DEC, they had high-margin
VAXes, and didn't want to cannibalize sales of those by build lower-margin cheap
workstations. At Microsoft, the WindowsNT effort was aiming to get a high-margin
revenue stream from workstations and servers, to supplement the sale of low-end
home/office products. So Cutler was expressing a consistent preference for high-value
high-functionality high-margin products.