[Info-vax] Beyond Open Source

[mcleanjoh at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 12:20:11 AM UTC+10, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
> billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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Bill,  I put the repetition down to age. :-)

Two things fade with age.  The first is memory but I can't remember the other.