[Info-vax] Beyond Open Source

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <crbqfmF1q8oU1 at mid.individual.net>,
	bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> In article <mio0ek$vtd$1 at dont-email.me>,
> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> COMPAQ stopped development of Alpha. Three senior engineers,
>>> long-time DEC/COMPAQ people, had been working with Intel and
>>> concluded that the best path forward was to move to Itanium.
>> 
>> I'm old enough to remember this event.  But my memories were that many 
>> of the engineers felt the opposite of the "select few".
>> 
>> Got to wonder what type of veiled statements about future employment 
>> might have been made to those select three ....
>> 
>> My memories were that the systems people did a poor job with the 
>> Wildfire systems, that the chip people were less than pleased, and were 
>> taking much of the "systems" work and placing it on the chip for EV7.
>> 
>> So, yeah, there was disagreement, and more, between the systems people 
>> and the Alpha chip people.
> 
> 
> Sadly, I'm old enough, too.   :-)
> 
> But the thing I remember the most was how everybdy talked about what a
> steaming pile of excrement the Itanium was 9and EPIC, for that matter)
> and how Alpha would continue to lead it for years to come.  Until 
> Sadly, I'm old enough, too.   :-)
> 
> But the thing I remember the most was how everybdy talked about what a
> steaming pile of excrement the Itanium was (and EPIC, for that matter)
> and how Alpha would continue to lead it for years to come.  Until the
> corporate statement supporting Itanium became official and then everyone
> did an immediate 180.  Amazing how politics trumps technology every time.
> 
> bill
> 

Now that was wierd.  Wonder what function of the editor duplicated this?

With things like this and the damn auto-correct on my phone I am really
getting tired of computers.  :-)

bill

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