From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Steudten Subject: Re: List active ? should be ALPHA alive Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:03:20 +0200 Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F87FF98.9010801@steudten.com> References: <200310111244.h9BCi7QD021471@indianer.linux-kernel.at> Reply-To: alpha@steudten.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200310111244.h9BCi7QD021471@indianer.linux-kernel.at> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: Oliver Pitzeier Cc: George France , Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py>, James Stevenson , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org >>>And lets be realistic, there are not many Alpha left in this world,=20 >> >>There are many Alphas remaining. Many that run Linux. Many=20 >>more that run Tru64 and OpenVMS. You can still buy shinny new >>alpha systems.=20 Oh man, we=B4re not dead ;-) Ok, my SX164 board with the 21164pc is goi= ng slower in the last days with the x86 cpus reaches the 1giga herz and more. But alpha is still 6= 4bit, still resident for viruses and worms and .. a lot of fun with booting with milo or srm= .. with fix bugs from developers who don=B4t imagine, that a long is really 64bit. >>Alpha is going away, but it is not gone yet. I do think so, too. >=20 >=20 > HP is letting Alpha die... They didn't annouce the newest alpha-chip = a few months ago (EV78!?)... >>or they have service agreements with HP. > Or still some old Compaq service level agreements... :-P But they do = not know much about Linux on Alpha... At least here in Austria...... HP? Oh man, they try their 4th reassambly, nobody here in switzerland knows= any "old" person, what he/she did, or whatever. The old contacts are gone. And they really know nothing about alpha or = linux.. :-( And somebody told me, that=B4s the same in good old germany. -- Tom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html