On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:25:27PM -0800, Tracy Nelson wrote:
> From: "Andy R" <quadreverb@yahoo.com>
> > Enlighten me here, is this company going to be
> > continuing development of the Alpha? Does it have a
> > future here?
> 
> I don't think there's much hope for Alpha.  The chip and development team
> were sold to Intel, which obviously has a lot to gain by killing it.  The
> development team is supposedly working on the third-generation (after
> McKinley) Itanium already.  Theoretically, if IA-64 crashes & burns, they
> might ressurect the Alpha, but there's talk they've already got a 64-bit
> version of x86 under development (a la AMD's Hammer), so that's more likely
> to see the light of day than Alpha.

There were other corp doing developement on Alpha than DEC (was it samsoung
or hitachi) ? I don't know what is their state now, though ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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