On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On July 19, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > I've not been looking at the DEC gear recently, but last I did look the number
> > of Alpha boardc and CPUs seemed to have gone down drastically. I think
> > the supply is drying up.
>
> I'd be seriously surprised if Alphas were drying up. There were a
> LOT of them made. Machines of which there were far fewer, and that
> are far older, can still be found readily.
>
> Having no better explanation, I respectfully submit that this
> "shortage" of Alpha hardware is due to random market fluctuations.
>
I wonder how much of it is due to businesses sucking up spares to keep
their real work going for the long term now that Compaq has EOLed the
line (prematurely, many would say!!)
bill
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Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 08:22:42 BST