[Info-vax] Dvorak on Itanic

[David Mathog]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> John Smith (not the one @ HP) wrote:
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339629,00.asp

> Itanic toes seem to have been "sailing under a curse".

Well, in terms of actually getting out the door and working as promised, 
  sure.  But in one sense it was immensely blessed.  Throughout all of 
this nonsense, where all the computer manufacturers were not only 
talking about deemphasizing their own CPUs, but in some cases (MIPS, 
Alpha) actually doing so, and pinning future development on Intel's 
great white hope, there was no anti-trust action whatsoever.  Not even a 
hint of it.  Were not there actions more than a little anticompetitive? 
To me it seems analogous to the hypothetical situation where Lexmark, 
Canon, and HP, announce that henceforth all of their printers would only 
use Epson print cartridges.

The only company that didn't buy into this nonsense was AMD.  Now that 
may have been because Intel wouldn't let them in on the party, but in 
any case, they had to respond, and eventually pushed the Opteron out the 
door, thereby showing everybody just how naked the Emperor really was. 
The rest is history.

Regards,

David Mathog