[Info-vax] Did Ken Olsen kill Alpha?

[Michael Kraemer]

Rich Alderson schrieb:
> Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> 
>>In hindsight, the Mips line was one of DEC's smartest moves.
>>Too bad they blew it.
> 
> 
> For that matter, MIPS own line of Unix-based systems was good enough that a
> firm with which I'm quite familiar used them for their IT for several years,

The Magnum's, I guess, a very rare machine these days.
Within five years I found only one auction. I lost :-(

> until HP's PA-RISC servers brought in better price/performance ratios.
> (Alpha was in the running for the replacement platform, as was Sparc.)
> 
> I know, because I helped do the benchmarks that drove the decision.
>