Alpha CPUs & motherboards

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Fri Jul 20 12:22:17 2001

>> Good point. But the EOL is *years* away. Isn't this a little
>> premature, even for the "careful folk"?
>
>Not really. For some of the odd-ball stuff, the sooner the better
>(just ask anyone that has to keep a VAX going that uses the Pro3x0-
>based console).

Good point, resellers are now going to have to decide if they dedicate
storage space to legacy Alpha hardware or VAX hardware, and in some cases
this extends to PDP-11 and even PDP-8 hardware.

                        Zane

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