Re: Sandia says alpha the best chip!

From: Alan Greig (greigaln_at_netscape.net)
Date: 04/30/05 

Date: 30 Apr 2005 10:36:56 -0700

Dave Froble wrote:
> icerq4a@spray.se wrote:
> > Most Alpha people are working Itanium, some on Xeon,
> > and they are especially on the future common system architecture.
> >
>
> Recent news is that the ex-Alpha people were thrown off their
project.
>
> Because the ex-HP people didn't like what they were doing.

Likely Intel just needed an excuse to move its best people (the Alpha
folks) into its top priority X86-64 projects. Let the ex-HP engineers
fiddle with the death rattle of Itanium. 

-- 
Alan Greig