End of the Alpha CPU (was: IBM Buys Rational for $2.1Billion!)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, at 1:01pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> Ahh, and they just anounced EOL for the Alpha today as well :)

  I had not heard about this yet, but found this article fairly quickly:

	http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976211.html

  I find it interesting that HP plans to dump both the DEC Alpha and their
own PA-RISC line of microprocessors, in favor of Intel's IA-64 "Itanium"  
line.  I still have not heard anything really good about the Itanium.  In
fact, the best I have heard is that it does not suck as much as it used to.  
Has IA-64 really gotten so much better that is can seriously be considered
as a replacement for the PA-RISC and Alpha chips?

  Links to other news stories and reviews, as well as personal opinions, are
welcomed.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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