[geeks] Re: [rescue] Re: Sad end to SGI Power Challenge XL story

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Mar 21 23:37:19 CST 2002


On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:34:24PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:25:07AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   In recent years I've become very much aware of my many little pet
> > peeves.  One of my biggest ones lately has been "doomsaying" regarding
> > vendors, products, or architectures in the computer industry.  Someone
> > gets bought, and all of a sudden they're "dead".  
> 
> *cough* alpha *cough* 8-9
> 
> Bill (helping move tons of storage from EMC-scsi to new EMC-fiber storage
>       this Saturday, in preparation for a migration from Alpha to Sun..)

What are you talking about?  Alpha isn't dead.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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