[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Alexander Bochmann]

Hi,

...on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:53:56PM -0500, Reagen B. Ward wrote:

 > Mike Free wrote:
 > > could I speculate....that HP has bought compaq to attain the alpha program;
 > > and so they can dump their line of home PC's to concentrate on server apps
 > Not likely considering their investment in PA-RISC and Itanium.  If you have

I don't have the impression that HP will need longer to dump 
their PA-RISC stuff than Compaq needed to get rid of the Alpha.

Judging from the news, the future will have Intel's IA64 and ARM, 
and some Sparc for us.

Alex.