[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <kdodgj$qs1$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip
Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article <kdo981$un9$1 at solani.org>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de>
> writes: 
> 
> > > Alpha was killed in order to keep it from
> > > competing with Itanium because 
> > 
> > Isn't it about time to put this myth to rest?
> 
> First the agreement to move to Itanium and then, by chance, HP buys 
> Compaq.  OK, there are coincidences (I once had a file with a checksum 
> of 0), but this stretches credibility quite a bit.

One may of course suspect that Alpha's EOling 
and the HP merger are related,
but it would be hard to prove, unless some "Alphaleaks"
site unleashes secret mails from that era.
But in the end it doesn't matter much, Compaq simply
took the opportunity to complete what DEC already
agreed on in that 1997 settlement with intel.
Since then the Alpha lived on borrowed time anyway.
One could of course accuse Compaq of being dishonest,
since just three months before they told their customers
just the opposite:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405140905/http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/news
s/commit_letter.html