[rescue] Have I erred? (SGI division)

[Eric Dittman]

> > Then there's the VAX 7xxx and DEC 7xxx.  The VAX 7xxx is
> > obviously a VAX, but the DEC 7xxx is an Alpha.  People
> > will refer to both as a DEC 7xxx if they don't know what
> > they really have.
> 
>   Yup.  And to make matters even worse, there's the "moron factor".  "It
> has a big heatsink, therefore it must be a CPU."  Thus, "8-CPU Alpha
> boards" floating around that are actually uni- or dual-processor
> boards.

You are referring to those "8-CPU Alpha boards" on eBay,
aren't you?
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Eric Dittman
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