On 7/9/06, gary sheppard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

   Well stated. I particularly like the Open Standards Computer part. Isn't
the Spark CPU's an open standars arch? Just a thought :) Perhaps a pipe
dream, but just imagine the possibilities! Now an Open Standards Computer
would give me personally something to work very hard at obtaining! Believe
me im not making light of the tremendous amount of work that such an
undertaking would require. Still what a dream come true if it did happen. In
a totally alternate non-reality, how about reverse engineering the Alpha and
reviving it from the dead. You want to talk about a fanatical following...
/shrug.

The Alpha was sweet, but in large part because the design, layout, and
routing were done largely by hand.  A human designer can always do a
better job than a EDA tool, but will always take much longer to do it.
This is one of the reasons why Alphas were so expensive.
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