Waxing Philosophical

[William H. Magill]

On 29 Sep, 2004, at 13:15, Donsbach, Jeff wrote:
> To be fair, Compaq announced the end of Alpha (and the porting of Tru64
> to Itanium, which has since been canned as well) before the HP/Compaq
> merger was announced.
>
> So, you can't really place any blame on Carly for that.

There are many of us who believe that the canceling of Alpha was a 
prerequisite to "lunch" with Carly. ... coming as it did at the end of 
June (apparently blind siding many Alpha engineers) less than a week 
before the first "official" meeting in July.

As for porting Tru64 to Itanium... It was running on 9/11 (yes that 
9/11), but was still underperforming the Itanium emulator on Alpha. 
[The lawyers didn't get to Engineering until the end of that 
DECUS/Encompass gathering.]

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William H. Magill
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