Subject: Re: VIA VP2 chipset
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net>
From: Jeff Northon <jeffo@seashell.sasquatch.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/01/1998 20:02:28
Didn't Digital just sell the Alpha to Intel?

> 
> I truely wish Digital (aka Compaq) weren't such *&^!@$#-heads on their
> SRM capable Alpha licensing policies.  I'd far sooner run an Alpha than
> any Pentium, and not because it's 64-bit -- quite the opposite actually.
> (FYI, most Alpha motherboards even have ECC protected cache.)
> 
> It's almost worth paying Digital's insane prices for SRM anyway, just to
> get a more trustworthy machine....
> 
> Now if only my Multia CPUs hadn't gone wonky....
> 
> -- 
> 							Greg A. Woods
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