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[Eric Dittman]

> > Think of how different things would be if Sun and DEC had been
> > able to come to agreement on the Alpha and Solaris.  Sun could
> > have concentrated on Solaris and DEC could have concentrated
> > on the Alpha processor.  You could then buy a Sun box or a
> > DEC box, and they'd be binary compatible systems running Solaris
> > on an Alpha.
> 
> Ew.  I prefer the SPARC, myself.

The Alpha has always maintained a performance advantage over
the Sparc.  Also, if Sun didn't have to use resources (which
are significant) on upgrading and enhancing the Sparc they'd
have been able to use those resources elsewhere.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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