On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:43:23PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Andy R said:
> 
> >Now, if the question is "What platform do I buy to get
> >the best price/performance/reliability?" The answer is
> >almost always Alpha (as far as I'm concerned).
> 
> One interesting aspect of Intel buying the Alpha chip from Compaq is
> that Intel got the compiler guys, but most of the Alpha hardware
> chip designers went to AMD.
> 
> The guys who worked on the Alpha are now working on the AMD Hammer. :-)

Let's hope that AMD does well enough to consider the EV8 and other
non-Intel designs.

I also hope to see AMD motherboards with a crossbar and some reliable
chipsets like in the high-end Alpha hardware.  Within the next couple
of years, server level reliability could be put in PCs pretty cheaply
I would think.

Most people might not care, but server admins and game players will... both
get annoyed when their machine crashes during heavy processing... :)

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