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

[Jason Stephenson]

bscott at ntisys.com asked for personal opinions, so here's mine:

I've used PA-RISC, Alpha, PowerPC, POWER, MIPS, and SPARC platform 
machines, as well as CISC-based x86 and 680x0 hardware. In my opinion, 
nothing but nothing touches the Alpha in raw speed.

'Course the SPARCs are handicapped by running Sloaris [sic]. :-)