Alpha CPUs, was Re: [rescue] i860 Success

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 11:36, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:11:05AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix 
wrote:
> > Tue, 04 May 2004 @ 08:43 +0200, Bj?rn Ramqvist said:
> > > >*cough*P4*cough*
> > > >*cough*Itanium*cough*
> > >
> > > Geez...
> > > I've not stood up for anything just hit "del" for most of the
> > > discussion, but I took a chance and read some of the discussions.
> > > Man, have ANY of you actually used ANY Alpha gear?
>
> Again, I'm missing intervening posts.
>
> Lest there be ANY POSSIBLE confusion, I'm mentioning the above as
> conclusive examples NOT that the Alpha is outdated, but that newer is
> not necessarily better.


Can we end this?? You guys seem to be arguing over the definition of 
"outdated" and if it's a good thing or not, and it's not going anywere.

Grumble.

Pat
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