Quote Originally Posted by vbwins View Post
I worked for Digital at the time. You would need an Alpha 64 bit box or a decent emulator. They are around. At the time Alpha was the most potent microprocessor architecture around. Vb for alpha produced native 64 bit images but they only ran on 64 bit NT which only ran on Alpha at the time. So even if you got it all working your code wont run on anything else.

There were a whole bunch of corporate activity between MS & DEC as a result of DEC suing Intel for patent violation and MS hedged their 64 bit bet. Lets not even discuss how much Digital code may have ended up at MS after a bunch of people went to MS with Cutler. I used to support VMS many moons ago and reading Windows Internals is amazingly familiar....
Ah thank you for the info. I did follow up and found at least one person online with a hard system and there are attempts to preserve the software that ran on Alpha NT. I heard that early Windows 2000 builds may have supported the system, but that was removed upon release. I have the NT alpha operating system, but no device/emulator to run it. I was hoping to learn a few tidbits that may apply to today.