[Am-info] [OT] I've gone over to the brightly colored side.

[Joe Moore]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:12:01PM -0500, Eric M. Bennett wrote:
> 
> Yes, it's rather depressing to see everything getting overrun by 
> Intel.  I'm sitting here rooting for the Hewletts and Packards to 
> block the merger (that might save Tru64), but Alpha is dead 
> nonetheless.  Still, today it remains well ahead of the performance 
> found in PC CPUs.  As for IRIX, well, what *isn't* faster than MIPS? 
> Maybe the G4?  :-)

Alpha isn't dead.  It's just owned by Intel now, and so you might see 
bits of it in some future ia64 chip.

HP has no interest in their own RISC future (PA-RISC).  All their forward
plans look to ia64.  MIPS is happily running in embedded devices, which is
really where the processor architecture has the most flexibility.

--Joe
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