> Perhaps you can share with us Compaq's R&D budget over the past few years
> so that we can see how this has dropped? Or perhaps some data on the
> number of employees working on Alpha? and I suppose you've taken into
> account the other companies working on Alpha also (Samsung, API)?
I have none. I was only looking at this based on partisan announcements
from the EOMs. It seems that Intel puts out more iterations of is
processors than does Compaq. Also, I was looking to spur arguments so I
can understand why Alpha over Intel. Can you give such definitive
information? It would be greatly appreciated! :-)
>> This is allowing Intel to catchup and surpass Alphas based on on CPU
>> speed and price (i.e. bang-for-the-buck).
>
> Please, opinions are one thing, but this is just flame bait.
You are correct. Guilty as charged. As stated above, I need information
and the people on this list probably have what I need. Again, can you
help? Why Alpha? Arguments based on Processor, subsystems, etc.
architecture are good.
> On another note, I'd also reccomend looking for the SX machines, or even
> some PC164 machines (just saw some PC164-433 motherboards on ebay). The
> performance is much greater than the old axpPCI33.
SX based systems, huh? I guess they can give the price/performance break
that the newer Intel's can?
Paul
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