[Info-vax] Poulson at hot-chips 2011

[Hans Vlems]

On Aug 26, 4:33 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > your hands" was something hammered out in a face-saving truce. But its
> > all moot now, DEC is Dead (long live DEC) and Intel is still very much
> > alive and financially healthy.
>
> And Intel has since increased the level of access it has to all fo the
> Alpha technologies as well as gotten many of the Alpha engineers.
>
> In 1997, Palmer was already in talks with Pfeiffer over Compaq buying
> DEC. So the agreement with intel would have had that as background.
>
> Lets not forget the rumours that Digital did get some sort of royalties
> out of this and access to cheap 8086 chips (then only 32 bits) to help
> Dec build competitive PCs. Supposedly this deal was seen as an sset to
> Compaq who used it to lower its cost of the 8086 chips for all its PCs.

JF,
writing down history in great detail, with much time spent on "truth"
is a remote spectator sport at best.
It does not change the present.
Hans