[ale] [Fwd: End of the line for Alpha?]

[Dan Newcombe]

(Wow - it's amazing all the junk you find when trying to find info. Though
I did find this - http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9710/07/sun/  and in the 
"quit your whining"
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/971007/tech/stories/gte_1.html)

Anyway, the thing that I find odd about the Intel/Digital thing is that
there is no info about it on Digital's page.  You'd think they'd want to
silence a rumor like this ASAP.  

I am hoping that the followup saying that they are going to cooperate is
true, if not that is the end of the Alpha, and goodbye to Jurassic Park 3
(do you really think all that can still be done on Intels? :)

On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Geoffrey Myers wrote:

> Check this out, you alpha users...
> 
> glen mccready wrote:
> 
> > Forwarded-by: Kam T Tam <Kam.T.Tam at cmis.CSIRO.AU>
> > From: "Robert L. McMillin" <rlm at syseca-us.com>
> >
> > For those who haven't seen it yet on page A3 of today's Wall Street
> > Journal, there's an article on the fate of the Alpha (as resulting from
> > the Digital/Intel lawsuit/counter-suit) at
> >
> >          http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?97106.ealpha.htm
> >
> > Now, my crystal ball is pretty hazy, and I have no idea what they're
> > thinking at both DEC and Intel, but I wonder if this isn't the death
> > knell for the Alpha platform.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Until later:
> Geoffrey Myers   geof at abraxis.com
> 
> 
> 

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Dan Newcombe                                      newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu
"Maybe you were always beyond my reach and my heart was playing safe, But was
 that love in your eye I saw or the reflection of mine?"  --Marillion