[general_re]

I'll wait for the SPEC scores, myself. FWIW, the Itanium2 is reported to have better unofficial SPECfp scores than the Power4, and that's saying a lot.

Anyway, you're wrong. Alpha isn't dead just yet - HP just released their Alpha roadmap the other day.

[mj1234]

Guess what--Compaq is a liar--or extremely stupid--last year
in late June I saw a Non disclosure roadmap given to a fortune 50 company EV8,EV9 were shown--within 2 weeks Compaq
had killed this road map! Had the balls to show the new road
map --Think that company bought Alpha?--they tested Sun and promptly bought a dozen workstations ($125k) they will be
purchasing servers later.If you think you can move all of the compilers and have a stable 32 processor VMS enviroment
great --Recommend that to your company.Have a backup employment plan.AGAIN-COMPAQ got rid of most of their Alpha
engineers!--TRUE 64 unix has been officially killed -WILL NOT BE PORTED TO ITANIUM! Would you like any more kick in the balls? The only reason they talk up VMS is- U.S. government contracts that are in place.So to summarize-
NT-DEAD!----TRUE 64 DEAD---- VMS? believe what you want.