"HP's Alpha Marvel arrives on Tuesday
The marchitecture that dare not speak its name
By Mike Magee: Sunday 12 January 2003, 14:29
THE HP MARVEL products that dare not speak their name will be launched this coming Tuesday, according to reliable reports. But it won't be until the 21st of January that HP will issue a press release confirming all that good stuff we've written before, friends of Eva Glass yell at the INQUIRER.
Marvel has, apparently some rollickingly good benchmarks that HP wants to underplay (yeah! because merceDitaniCtwO, in which HP has a conflicting interest, sucks breakwind in comparison!), just in case people start comparing the performance of the Alpha Marvel architecture with the Itanium 2 it also sells, and perhaps more importantly, the SuperDome machines.
Marvel has a switched-fabric interconnect and Alpha EV79, apparently a wonder to behold.
But HP cannot be blamed for not pushing Marvel using the almost extinct Alpha technology.
Superdome Windjammer will arrive some time this summer and Intel is promising fast Itanium processors. (PRENGLE is now feverously writing applications...somebody has to.)
If we wrote about Sun, which we rarely do these days, we might say 'Cor, what a scorcher..."
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