[Info-vax] Vaxes shutting off this week

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Michael Austin wrote:
> 
>> Hmm.. I wonder what would have happened had Alpha continued on the path 
>> and then did what all of the other processors had to do get more 
>> through-put, go multi-core with more front-end cache...
> 
> Unless Palmer (when he was head of semi conductors and when head of
> Digital) changed his mind and started to accept customers to use the
> Hudson fab to capacity, they would have never had sufficient business to
> warrant expensive upgrades to smaller processes.
> 
> In that environment, going "fabless" would have been the only option.
> But had Digital accepted to fab other peope's chips (ontably AMD),
> things might have been quite different.
> 
> All water under the bridge now.  However, hopefully people can learn
> from Digital's mistakes and not repeat them.

I wouldn't bet on it!