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- From: stu5s11@bcrka280.bnr.ca (David Simmons 1342678)
- Subject: Re: Is DEC history???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.201600.28245@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:16:00 GMT
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- DEC isn't quite out of it yet. If the Alpha makes it, then
- they're position quite well in the market. In terms of
- performance, the Alpha seem to be superior to the PowerPC
- chip. (Based on what I've read.) In addition they've got a
- list of ways that will make the Alpha a 1000 times
- more powerful during the next 25 years.
-
- The big question is marketing. Can they sell the chip and
- get a few major design wins? (ie. If Motorola hadn't gotten
- the Macintosh, the 68000 would not be doing as well as
- it is today.) The biggest advantage right now is the Alpha-
- Windows NT alliance.
-
- If anything comes of this alliance, then Alpha might become
- the continuation of the PC line, especially now that the
- next-generation PC-risc development group has fallen apart.
- (Whatever it was called)
-
- Which brings this to the reason why this is interesting to the
- mac group. It's possible that the next ethnic conflict may
- be AppleIBM-Pink-PowerPC vs. DECMicrosoft-Windows-Alpha,
- paralleling the current Mac vs. PC conflict. Does anyone
- want to propose an Advocacy group now, while there's still
- time. We can spend the next two years just discussing the
- RFD.
-
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- John Andrusiak.
-