[geeks] HP's squandering

[Andrew Weiss]

They sell architectural upgrades for the older 3000's (board swap 
etc.), and/or recommend consolidating services on rp7400 machines.  As 
far as I can tell with what I have learned so far... I guess I should 
have clarified... the other two 4 and 5 are more conceptual rather than 
separate arch's... well at least 5 since it's also pa-risc based.  My 
point was they have all this research and development... millions of 
man-hours... a sizable customer base...control of the architecture and 
they just sh*t can it all... and decide to be at the mercy of Intel's 
every whim.

Andrew

On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:51  AM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 11:31 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>> It also occured to me that if you want to be really pedantic, HP is 
>> squandering not 2 but 5 architectures... with at least 3 of current 
>> commercial value.... all on Itanic II
>>
>> 1. PA-RISC
>> 2. Alpha
>> 3. NonStop (ex-Tandem) (MIPS)
>>
>> --------
>>
>> 4. VAX
>> 5. HP-3000 (mpe)
>>
>> Whee...!
>
>   Are they discontinuing the HP-3000?  Last I heard (which admittedly 
> was a while ago) it was still going strong.
>
>       -Dave
>
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