[rescue] Another fine business decision for us axp-lovers

[Dave McGuire]

On June 25, Sebastian Marius Kirsch wrote:
> The new Origin 3000 c-bricks will be mostly Intel -- either PIII Xeon or
> IA-64. No more MIPS. Or so I've been told. Though I don't know why you'd
> want to pollute such a wonderful machine with Intel hardware ... but,

  Agreed..

> yes, MIPS appears to be mostly dead; I'm sceptical as to whether the
> R18k will ever be built.

  I dunno...I keep hearing "dead" and similar words used to describe
things that are selling like hotcakes...I just don't see the
justification.  Maybe I'm being an idiot.

    -Dave McGuire