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@coolboymew @hfaust there's an Azure Discord because Teams can't handle remotely that many chat members.
@coolboymew @hfaust it's probably why they want to buy discord lol
@coolboymew @hfaust I don't think they can make good software anymore, they arguably never did but there was some good engineering in Windows NT.
Shinji Stancil 
@sun @Rocket @coolboymew @hfaust I wonder if that explains why NT had an Alpha port
@TeaTootler @coolboymew @hfaust @sun I think it does. It looks like MS was forced into a deal with DEC. Dave Cutler brought other DEC engineers with him and there's evidence they brought DEC code with them. Just read this yesterday after I did a quick search yesterday to confirm what I had heard years ago about VMS/WNT.
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@Rocket @TeaTootler @coolboymew @hfaust yes that was part of the deal, microsoft was forced to port NT to Alpha. That actually ended up being good for Microsoft because they were going to dump portability, but they kept it because of that deal and later they released the xbox 360 on PowerPC
@Rocket @TeaTootler @coolboymew @hfaust I actually used NT on Alpha at a job lol. Somebody had one at a company I worked at for some reason.