[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

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In article <4f9ac1a4$0$6893$e4fe514c at news2.news.xs4all.nl>, MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
>On 27-4-2012 17:11, Rich Jordan wrote:
>> Reportedly China is considering a 'national' CPU architecture (ISA at
>> least) decision for all government funded projects.
>
>Weren't they looking into MIPS already a year or two ago?  At the time,
>I believe it was misreported and gave the wrong impression, that they
>were looking into Alpha.  However, this article claims --- on top of
>those --- that they're looking into POWER, ARM and this "UPU" thing as
>well.  Now I don't know what to believe.

Well, unless they resurrect Alpha, they're hedging their bets on a dead
horse.  However, it is nice to see the SPARC is not in contention.

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