They AIM alliance also wanted to end the Wintel Duopoly. Adopting SPARC would help out Sun Microsystems, which I believe was the leader in workstations at the time.
MIPS was to be used as one of the 'standard' reference platforms for the Advanced Computing Environment[0] or Advanced RISC Computing (?) (the other being X86), that would run Windows NT.
MIPS was to be used as one of the 'standard' reference platforms for the Advanced Computing Environment[0] or Advanced RISC Computing (?) (the other being X86), that would run Windows NT.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Computing_Environment