[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[George Cook]

In article <hd49hq$m91$01$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> Neil Rieck schrieb:
>> On Nov 7, 3:58 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>Only if one presumes that DEC actually wanted to win the lawsuit.
>>>It is more likely that DEC simply wanted to put some
>>>pressure on intel so they could get rid of Alpha.
>>> From this point of view DEC actually succeeded.
>> 
>> 
>> Not sure here if you are interchanging the names "DEC" and "Compaq" on
>> purpose or not. 
> 
> Alpha was sold to intel in 1997, so still DEC/Palmer were in charge.

No.  It was not.  One more time, from Wikipedia:

"The Alpha architecture was sold, along with most parts of DEC,
to Compaq in 1998. Compaq, already an Intel customer, decided to
phase out Alpha in favor of the forthcoming Hewlett-Packard/Intel
Itanium architecture, and sold all Alpha intellectual property to
Intel in 2001"

I suspect that you are confusing the sale of the Hudson fab with
the sale of the IP.
 

George Cook
WVNET