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| 1846.1 | Free advice, and worth every penny | RANGER::MINOW | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Sun Apr 12 1992 21:47 | 9 |
| Since Alpha can emulate a Vax (or so I was told), and since Alpha will
be out in the "PC price/performance class" in some hopfully not too
distant future, I fail to see why we should be building "pure" Vax
systems except in niche markets, such as single-chip real-time systems.
If I were you, I'd put my engineering/manufacturing effort into lowering
the cost of Alpha systems.
Martin.
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| 1846.2 | VAX still has a purpose | PRIMES::ZIMMERMANN | VOTE for 'REAL CHOICES' to DCU | Sun Apr 12 1992 22:24 | 7 |
| I think this is a dangerous topic for this conference. Any
knowledgeable talk of Alpha would be inappropriate for this
conference, leaving many readers with the wrong impression of Alpha.
VAX's should, and I hope will, be produced for some time for come, and
for good reason.
Mark
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| 1846.3 | | SICVAX::SWEENEY | Patrick Sweeney in New York | Sun Apr 12 1992 22:59 | 11 |
| What's going on here?
"Knowledgeable talk" about Alpha should be going on continuously inside
the company and with customers by people who know the facts.
The Alpha conference is VAXWRK::ALPHANOTES, let the technical
knowledge flow there. Let the marketing commentary proceed in
NODEMO::MARKETING.
Everyone has a stake in Alpha, and Alpha will either save or destroy
Digital.
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| 1846.4 | Alpha vs R4000 | HGOVC::RAYMONDLEE | | Mon Apr 13 1992 04:16 | 7 |
| I went to an internal training on Open System this morning. I was told
that "Alpha Project" has made Digital without any new DECsystem for
another 9-12 months. The R4000 chip product was delayed because of
Alpha. Our competitors have it now.
I was also told that OpenVMS is a joke. We are kidding ourself. The
message was "Open means Unix".
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| 1846.5 | R4000 schedule not impacted by Alpha | SLOAN::HOM | | Mon Apr 13 1992 08:34 | 13 |
| > The R4000 chip product was delayed because of
> Alpha.
As a member of the Workstations Engineering PCU, I can say that this
statement is absolutely NOT true. Part of the reason for the long
engineering schedule was the need to make the R4000 daughter cards
compatible with the current R3000 (32bit) daughter card.
There were and still are two separate engineering teams: one for
the R4000 products and one for the Alpha based workstations.
Gim
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| 1846.6 | Topic write-locked | SCAACT::AINSLEY | Less than 150 kts. is TOO slow | Mon Apr 13 1992 09:50 | 9 |
| As Patrick Sweeney put it so well in .3, the alpha discussion should continue
in VAXWRK::ALPHANOTES and the VAX and marketing discussion should continue in
NODEMO::MARKETING.
As usual, check the rules of both conferences before discussing futures.
Thanks,
Bob Co-moderator DIGITAL
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