[FYI] Farewell then, Alpha - Hello, Compaq the Box Shifter

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/19951.html

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Farewell then, Alpha - Hello, Compaq the Box Shifter  

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco  

Posted: 25/06/2001 at 15:36 GMT  

Digital Equipment Corporation may have officially ceased to be in 
1997, when it was taken over by Compaq, but Ken Olsen's great dream 
really died today. Compaq's decision to divest itself of the world's 
fastest chip, and to standardise its enterprise servers on Intel's 
Itanium marks the end of forty years in which its destiny was in its 
own hands.  

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