Compaq announced end of life on Alpha about nine months ago.

George


Nancy Sollars wrote:
> 
> not sure if Alpha is dead or no .. still alot of cluster solutions using
> them ..
> 
> I guess its application area is rather narrow but i would'nt read the Alpha
> its last rights yet
> 
> Nige
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trent Shipley" <tcshipley@earthlink.net>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:40 AM
> Subject: Re: flame-bait contra Re: anti dot-net spew
> 
> > What does a bargain-basement fab that produces competitive 64-bit CPUs
> cost
> > anyway?
> >
> > On Tuesday 05 March 2002 00:04, you wrote:
> > > TI is going to be producing the Sparc Ultra III for Sun.  Alpha is Dead
> or
> > > dying.  AMD is about to (or has) release the Sledgehammer, their
> competitor
> > > for the 64-bit world.  Wouldn't surprise me if Motorola got out of the
> > > Desktop world, but probably not while Apple is selling the systems.
> It's
> > > gonna be fun to watch AMD and Intel going head-to-head in the 64-bit
> world.
> > >  As long as AMD stays in the market, Intel has nothing to fear from Big
> Bad
> > > Uncle Sam coming after it for being a Monopoly, but of course Intel
> hasn't
> > > done the things that Microsoft did to get their monopoly (or am I
> wrong?).
> > >
> > > > I'm not certain the "only runs on Intel" is much of a distinction.  As
> > > > far as I know Itanium will be the only chip in its league.
> > > >
> > > > Cost of development and building a fab is getting just to high for
> there
> > > > to be more than one producer.  IBM, HP, and Compaq are getting out of
> the
> > > > CPU biz.  Motorolla probably will too.  Don't know about SUN.
> > > >
> > > > As for having to upgrade every three years, aren't you the one who
> says
> > > > the cost of hardware and the OS is "irrelevant"?
> > > >
> > >
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