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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Now that Alpha is here......
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.165404.13034@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 16:54:04 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
- References: <1992Nov12.155916.231@hsh.com> <1992Nov13.133906.8445@engage.pko.dec.com>,<1992Nov13.190642.243@hsh.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.190642.243@hsh.com>, lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann) writes:
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- >My reasoning is that people will be replacing their older, slower vaxen
- >running _VMS_ boxes for a newer, faster Alpha running _VMS_ boxes.
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- This will probably result in a faster migration of CISC-VAXen into
- people's homes, just as you see folks buying S*n 3/xxx and setting them up as
- X-terms and personal Un*X networkds.
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- ... Hmm ... I wonder how cheaply you could produce a 4000/90 if you farmed out
- the chips and such...
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- Somehow I doubt they'll be selling the VAX/CISC chips to Commodore or Atari,
- but it's always nice to wonder... :)
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