[Info-vax] Did Ken Olsen kill Alpha?

[Michael S]

On Oct 24, 3:49 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <j7s566$gt... at solani.org>, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> writes:
>
> > Mips wasn't an SGI product, but an independent fabless chip firm.
>
>    Not yet.
>
> >> I don't think anyone was surprised when SGI bought MIPS.
>
> > Because DEC didn't want it but rather burned their money
> > in a fruitless endeavour called Alpha.
>
>  Alpha came a little later.

SGI acquired MIPS Computers in the 2nd half of 1992. DEC started
shipping Alphas in the 1st half of the same year. DEC started to talk
about Alpha's superiority at least full year before that.