New "Compaq" Supercomputer

From: Paul Braun <nerdware_at_laidbak.com>
Date: Sat Sep 2 20:03:43 2000

Go to Compaq's website and click on the link about the new
contract they just got for a machine with 12,000 Alpha's in it!!

Kinda ticks me off, though, that while DEC did all the development
work on this architecture, came up with something unique and
technologically superior, the company that gets the credit for the
big win is the same one that has made it's fortune cloning crappy
IBM boxes and can't even make a laptop that goes three months
before it has to back to the service department AGAIN.......

Sorry. I'm the netadmin in an office where corporate policy sticks
me with Armada laptops that need to go back for some sort of
board replacement all the time. I'm on a first-name basis with the
guy from Airborne..... it's gotten to the point where I figured out how
they assign case numbers, and I can have the first six digits
already written down before they start talking.....I have at least one
a week go back. And some have gone in three or four times this
past year!




Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_nospam_at_laidbak.com
Received on Sat Sep 02 2000 - 20:03:43 BST