Re: IA64

[Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>]

On 28 Jul 2000, Alan P. Kennedy, Sr wrote:

> >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Voss <Dave.Voss@fr.coflexip.com> writes:
> 
> 
>  Dave> However, I was told by my IS department that MS no longer
>  Dave> supports NT/Alpha. If this is true, IA64 is of course a big
> 
> Compaq recently announced that it was resuming support for NT, and
> wil start supporting Win2000 also. Don't have any dates, but you could
> check the compaq site to see if they are really going to acutally do
> this. 


Ummm..no they didn't. There was a rumor floating aound that they were
going to, however in response to the rumor they flatly denied that it was
or would ever be brought back. 

--rdp
 
> I would concur that marketing has more to do with the success of the
> alpha than technical merits. This is usually the case with most
> products. 
> 
> Later,
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 

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Rich Payne
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