Worked in Microsoft back in the day, as a QA, and we had an extra Alpha NT machine which was used as a test machine for our software. I didn't know much about Alpha architecture at the time, just that it was this non-Intel CPU with some strange assembly language, and I remember being amazed that NT looked and seemingly behaved the same on that CPU as on my own Intel workstation.

Then one day I was told that Alpha machine is to be taken, there was no need anymore to test on it. And that was that.

I never learned the full story until much later.