[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bob Koehler wrote:
>  Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>> As for x86 systems hardware: it's already been pointed out that the
>>> innards of any reasonably modern low-end Alpha (from any AlphaStation
>>> onward) were remarkably PC-like in terms of chips and functionalities,
>> The Alpha was intended to be able to run Windows.  AFAIK few people ever 
>> did but the possibility was there!
> 
>    The Alpha was designed to be OS neuteral.  It still is.

It is not being developed or produced anymore.

But the systems produced is certainly still capable of running
multiple OS's.

Arne