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sad day in computer-land
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You really have to wonder who's still using these things....I remember using DEC Alphas way back when....damn, the Alphas replaced the VAX 
And ran VMS. OK, I was going to say this was not that big a deal, but wow, now that I think of it, its the end of an age....
I remember back in 92 at JPL walking down a hallway and seeing a DEC Vector Analyzer (or something like that) used to specifically process arrays of numbers. It was all hardware and had been replaced by a single computer using software. Oh, and the thing was the size of a medium sized cabinet They were giving it to anyone who'd move it for them.
Long live DEC! DEC is dead...
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And ran VMS. OK, I was going to say this was not that big a deal, but wow, now that I think of it, its the end of an age....I remember back in 92 at JPL walking down a hallway and seeing a DEC Vector Analyzer (or something like that) used to specifically process arrays of numbers. It was all hardware and had been replaced by a single computer using software. Oh, and the thing was the size of a medium sized cabinet
They were giving it to anyone who'd move it for them.Long live DEC! DEC is dead...
D
csubear said:
i wouldn't say it's based on alpha since intel acquired the alpha portion of dec 3 years ago whereas itanium has been in development for much longer than that. of course, intel won't really say what parts of any processor is influenced by alpha.