[Info-vax] OT: About proprietary chips

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 28-01-2010 03:40, John Wallace wrote:
> As for "Alpha failed because it didn't reach sufficient numbers": look
> again, and tell me with a straight face that Alpha wasn't taken off
> the market as a result of backroom political deals between Palmer and
> Intel. The "insufficient numbers, so continued development costs too
> much" was merely a convenient nearly-plausible excuse to spout in
> public.

I would expect the backroom dealings to be solid founded in
the market situation.

If Alpha had sold like Athlon64 did a few years later, then
it would not have been killed.

Arne