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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Tom Dunstan <tommyd@senet.com.au>, Linux SA <tommyd@senet.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:37:49 +0900

Re: More space required

At 03:58 PM 6/28/00 +0930, Tom Dunstan wrote:
>David Drury wrote:
>
>> It really requires the PPC in the Wintel market. If an oportunity were
>> presented to use say an Alpha Chip with PCI BUS, and SCSI interface, and
>> priced at Desktop prices, linux could actually be a winner here.
>
>You dreamt about that too? Mmmm, cheap Alpha....

Frankly, I think that this is a pipe dream. I spent years supporting Alpha
and Digital UNIX at Digital, and they just did not understand what it took
to make Alpha a volume player.

The big problem is that there simply will never be enough software for
Alpha to make it interesting.

I would watch AMD and hope that they don't screw up big time again. Esp as
one of the Alpha designers works for AMD now.

><grin>
>
>Tom
>
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Regards
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