[rescue] Current collections...

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:58:51PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2004, at 12:47 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >Agreed.  There went a damned nice architecture.  I *WANTED* an n-way
> >21364 box, dammit!
> 
>   You can still buy Alphas, man.  They're not dead yet.

Very true, but I don't think the 21364 ever actually made it to
production.  I no longer remember the details of the scuttlebutt about
what the memory architecture was going to be, but by all accounts it was
going to have cache and memory bandwidth out the wazoo.

> HP/Compaq/whoever still has time to rescind their cancellation, if they 
> suddenly grow an intelligent CEO.

Slim chance of that at this point.  The fucking suits have taken over.


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