It's dying... Compaq is going to continue producing the Alpha chip through the
EV79, but will officially migrate their systems (Tru64, VMS, and NSK) to the
Intel 64 bit Itanium chip over the next couple of years. Compaq is also sending
several hundred Alpha chip designers to Intel over the next few years...
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010625/tc/compaq_intel_3.html
Greg
> Hmmmm. Just saw this:
>
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-25-004-21-NW-BZ-HW
>
> While it has some sensationalist tones and never quite gets around to saying
> "Compaq has discontinued the Alpha line", it doesn't sound good. The Alpha is
> likely the cleanest general-purpose microprocessor architecture in production
> today, and I would hate to see it go, but given Compaq's history, this would
> not surprise me.
>
> I know we have some still-DECies-at-heart on this list, as well as some
> Alpha people... do you guys know anything?
>
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