In article <5jgvh0$rj6@pravda.cc.gatech.edu>, lyman@cc.gatech.edu (Lyman
S. Taylor) wrote:
>
> To futher supplement that "it was the marketing.... " viewpoint,
> BusinessWeek has an article this week about how the Alpha is both the
> fastest general purpose microprocessor out. And the one with the smallest
> market share.
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/1997/17/b3524142.htm
>
Yup. I read this in the printed version of {Business Week} during my
lunch break today.
One especially interesting detail: _APPLE_ approached DEC about using
Alphas for their next generation of Macs, but DEC wasn't interested,
so they went the PowerPC route.
Apple's having their share of problems these days, mostly because their
long-standing tradition of shooting themselves repeatedly in both feet
finally caught up with them, so AlphMacs might not have saved them
from themselves, but wouldn't they have been _nifty_ boxes!
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier
If, of all the words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, "It might have been,''
More sad are these we daily see:
"It is, but hadn't ought to be.''
- Bret Harte
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"But I thought it was pointed at the rabbit *between* my feet!"
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