[Info-vax] "x86 has only a few years left in the market place"

[Dave Froble]

On 5/21/2018 9:24 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 2:33:29 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
>
>> Oh, yes, it was HP who came up with the idea, and I'm not sure why Intel
>> jumped on the idea.  Probably the concept of dominating the market with
>> no competition.  But it started with HP.
>
> After being a decade late to market with "their" 64-bit chip INTEL/HP got caught red handed stealing Alpha tech to make their bastardization work.
>

I seem to recall it was the Pentium Pro that used some Alpha tech.  This 
might have been before HP enticed Intel to embrace the itanic.