Alpha CPUs & motherboards

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Fri Jul 20 11:30:24 2001

On July 20, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > That would be downright silly, because they haven't EOLed the
> > line...they've announced that the WILL EOL it, in what should be a
> > couple of years.
>
> There is a lot of panic about the future EOL of the Alpha, with
> a lot of people equating that to the end of OpenVMS, which is
> wrong. This is just another architecture transition. I would

  Yup.

> have preferred that the Alpha go on, but the real point is the
> OS, not the CPU.

Well, for some folks, maybe. If someone sticks me in a project with a
crappy OS, I will find the source and fix it (unless it's Windoze, of
course, but I don't consider that an OS!)...whereas if someone sticks
me with a crappy processor, well, there's little one can do.

> I can see people trying to stock up spares ahead of the EOL,
> though. It would be better to grab them while they are
> plentiful and cheap than to wait until the EOL when people
> will want to stockpile some of the items that will be harder
> to get later.

  Good point. But the EOL is *years* away. Isn't this a little
premature, even for the "careful folk"?

            -Dave McGuire
Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 11:30:24 BST