[Info-vax] Alpha technology lives on in the Top 500 supercomputers?

[Paul Sture]

"An Alpha was back in the Top 500 list, in this millennium?"

<http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1932>

Do read the links there. Here's a taster from "Part I":

"The problem was that Compaq in year 2001 was still too valuable for the
acquisition – so let’s reduce the value! Since the chip fab was already
sold to Intel, how about killing off the Alpha itself..."

I always maintained that the Alphacide was primarily a business decision.

-- 
There are two hard things in computer science, and they are cache invalidation,
naming, and off-by-one errors.