[Gllug] HP Compaq?

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 4 Sep 2001, Kim Hawtin wrote:
>Intel has been buying the rights to many alternative PC/micro
>processors recently...IIRC
>IIRC that Compaq sold Alpha as a condition on the purchase of DEC [1].

Hardly; Compaq bought DEC years ago, and actively developed Alpha for
a little while afterwards.

My guess is that the death of Alpha was anticipating this deal; HP
having killed PA-RISC in favour of IA-64 would then find it difficult
to own the CPU that's proof that non-Intel designs can be viable.

>Remember that Sun have one OS, one processor. No-one else can
>claim that,

If you mean that they sell only one OS running on only one processor,
not so; they sell Solaris x86 and Cobalt Linux-based boxes.

If you mean that they control both the OS and the processor, IBM can
claim that _twice_; once for S/390 (not a UNIX) and once for RS/6000 +
AIX.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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