[Info-vax] Oracle-RDB question

[George Cook]

In article <hbs7t2$38p$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> In article <z8hEm.12355$U5.177776 at newsb.telia.net>,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?=   <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>> 
>> And what on earth has "DEC" to do with this ?
> 
> Wasn't it DEC who invented alpha?
> They should have had the strongest interest in it.
> 
>> DEC was long gone when Alpha was shut down.
> 
> In fact DEC themselves shut it down when they sold it to intel.

>From the Wikipedia DEC Alpha article:

"The Alpha architecture was sold, along with most parts of DEC,
to Compaq in 1998.  Compaq, already an Intel customer, decided to
phase out Alpha in favor of the forthcoming Intel IA-64 "Itanium"
architecture, and sold all Alpha intellectual property to Intel in
2001, effectively killing the product."

I believe "sold all Alpha intellectual property to Intel in
2001" is an over simplification of what happened.


George Cook
WVNET