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Re: Alpha in peril? First Canion, now Pfieffer

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From: Arthur T. Murray
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:00
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Erik Corry <erik@arbat.com> circa 19 Apr 1999 sic locutus est:
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>In comp.arch Paul DeMone <pdemone@igs.net> wrote:
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>> Fast forward to the present, now Pfieffer is forced to walk the
>> plank.  He seemed to have demonstrated a firm support for Alpha,
>> especially at the very high end at the expense of Merced and IA-64.
>
>[...] So I'm guessing Alpha strategy won't change all that
>much. There's not much to do anyway on the 64 bit processor
>question (since you cannot sell Merceds at the moment they
>aren't a real competition to the Alpha), though The Register has
>Compaq planning sweeping price cuts in cheap PCs. [...]
>--
>Erik Corry erik@arbat.com     Ceterum censeo, Microsoftem esse delendam!

Imperium Microsoftiale non est nova quaedam Carthago,

ergo Microsoft non est delenda sed est transmutanda et reformanda

in organisationes minus periculosas pro bon publico, pro bono

totius mundi et totius humani generis.

Et tu, Bill Gates?  Quo vis hodie vadere?

In Congressum Americanum ubi te in odio habent?

Aut in historiam, ubi amabunt te si philanthropicus fueris?

Alea jacenda est.

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From: uj797@victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Re: Alpha in peril? First Canion, now Pfieffer
Date: 1999/04/19
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