Re: Now that Alpha is here......

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From: jackson
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:39

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In article <1992Nov12.155916.231@hsh.com>, lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann) writes:
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|>Now that the new Alpha Vaxes are out, does anyone have a spare KA655 and memory
|>they care to part with (cheap? :-)
|>

Sorry for flaming you, but please, please, please.  


Alpha is NOT a VAX, it is an entirely new architecture that was designed
from the ground up.  It does not execute VAX instructions and the only thing
that it has in common with a VAX is that they both run VMS.  

Thanks
--


William M. Jackson
Workstation Product Marketing Manager
Workstation Engineering
Digital Equipment Corporation
146 Main Street
Maynard, MA 01754

Mail:	Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com

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