[Info-vax] ITIC 2014 - 2015 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability

[Bob Koehler]

In article <556bbd5e$0$22349$c3e8da3$a9097924 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> Just out of curiosity here.
> 
> If one were to take Alpha EV7 designs, instruction/pipelining etc, and
> do a process shrink to make it work on the latest process, would it be
> competitive to current chips on a per core basis ?

   Take the cost of doing that, and spread it out over the number of
   chips to be made, and no I don't think it would be competitive.

   It would have been good for the industry if Alpha had taken off
   and replaced everything else, but it's too late now.

   Maybe Alpha will provide inspiration when it's time to move from 64
   bit to 128.  More likely the top seller will be another expansion
   of the 4004.