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

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Dave
> Froble via Info-vax
> Sent: May 21, 2018 1:50 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] "x86 has only a few years left in the market
place"
> 
> 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.
>

Walk down memory lane:

<https://www.cnet.com/news/intel-digital-settle-suit/>

<https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/28/business/intel-and-digital-settle-la
wsuit-and-make-deal.html>

< https://www.cnet.com/news/digital-cyrix-sue-intel-over-patents/>
"I don't mind competing against Intel, but I'd rather not compete
against our own technology," Digital CEO Robert Palmer said. "The time
has come for these unlawful practices to stop." The patents included in
the lawsuit relate to Digital's cache management, branch prediction, and
instruction-processing technology within the Alpha processor. Patents
covering these areas were issued to Digital between 1988 and 1996."

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com