Computer collecting humor.

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue Nov 4 22:02:27 1997

<usually "a month late". Intel might have just bought it to stamp it out,
<but my guess is they're aiming to do something with the RISC market, they
<could be attempting to lower the Alpha's power down to H/PC levels and the

What the hell.

I used to work for DEC and DEC didn't sell ALPHA they sold the fab unit
that does alpha. It's cheaper to have some other silicon foundry make the
part to your spec. WD, intersil, AMD and Harris have over then years made
parts for DEC that were designed by or for DEC. DEC plans to keep cranking
the Alpha for bet your business systems than PCs have fallen short for.

In the mean time I'm running a few old VAXen to remind me how much better
an OS VMS (OK, OpenVMS) is.

Allison
Received on Tue Nov 04 1997 - 22:02:27 GMT