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- From: lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Now that Alpha is here......
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.190642.243@hsh.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 23:06:42 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.155916.231@hsh.com> <1992Nov13.133906.8445@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Organization: HSH Associates
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- In article <1992Nov13.133906.8445@engage.pko.dec.com>, jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com writes:
- >
- >
- > Sorry for flaming you, but please, please, please.
- >
- >
- > 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
- > --
- >
- >
- > William M. Jackson
- > Workstation Product Marketing Manager
- > Workstation Engineering
- > Digital Equipment Corporation
- > 146 Main Street
- > Maynard, MA 01754
- >
- > Mail: Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
-
- I pretty much know what an Alpha chip is, thank you. :-)
-
- My reasoning is that people will be replacing their older, slower vaxen
- running _VMS_ boxes for a newer, faster Alpha running _VMS_ boxes.
-
-
- --
-
- Lee Havemann, Sys_op HSH Associates (201) 838-3330
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