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- From: jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Now that Alpha is here......
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.133906.8445@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 13:39:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.155916.231@hsh.com>
- Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon)
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <1992Nov12.155916.231@hsh.com>, lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann) writes:
- |>
- |>Now that the new Alpha Vaxes are out, does anyone have a spare KA655 and memory
- |>they care to part with (cheap? :-)
- |>
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- Sorry for flaming you, but please, please, please.
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- Alpha is NOT a VAX, it is an entirely new architecture that was designed
- from the ground up. It does not execute VAX instructions and the only thing
- that it has in common with a VAX is that they both run VMS.
-
- Thanks
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- William M. Jackson
- Workstation Product Marketing Manager
- Workstation Engineering
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- 146 Main Street
- Maynard, MA 01754
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- Mail: Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
-