Waxing Philosophical

[William H. Magill]

On 29 Sep, 2004, at 06:51, Mike Barnes wrote:
> What is it about the Alpha that's got me doing this? Why spend twelve
> months compiling, tweaking, hunting down patches and clues to build a
> system on this platform when I could go out, spend a couple of hundred
> dollars on a PC, and just download and install a recent Fedora Core
> build?

... because the Alphas still run and still out perform the Intel boxes?

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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