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

[Eric M. Bennett]

Joe Moore wrote:

>Alpha isn't dead.

It is dead in terms of providing competition, which is the reason 
it's unfortunate to see everything getting overrun by Intel.

It's also apparently dead in the sense that Compaq hasn't been 
putting any significant resources into keeping the development going. 
The workstations we have were first introduced over two years ago, 
and today guess what?  They are no faster than they were then. 
Compaq is still selling them at the same speed!  But they are still 
fast.


>HP has no interest in their own RISC future (PA-RISC).

Obviously.  Of course, you could as well use the same logic you used 
for the Alpha: "PA-RISC isn't dead, it's part of IA-64", right?


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Eric Bennett / ericb@pobox.com / emb22@cornell.edu
Cornell University, Chemistry & Chemical Biology

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