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To: Greg Jung who wrote (4791)	4/28/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

> Conclusion: For performance/price + unix desktop you may likely > choose a Linux Alpha - year 2002 merced performance today. Rubbish; you should work for Compaq marketing, with slogans like that. I suppose you've just unearthed an EV6 system clocked at 1GHz and matching memory subsystem now, that is likely not to be obsoleted before 2002? And I suppose it's as cheap as these will be in 2002, and already runs Linux. Sure. I can assure you that SGI's current product line is a good match for an Alpha machine (a good EV56-600MHz box). Mind you, the machine, not just the chip. And I don't think these products will stand still, or retrograde, before 2002. > "We" (Intel/MS/SGI/HP) and the others You forgot Sun; they've jumped on the bandwagon too with Solaris-on-IA64. >Married to Microsoft without realizing that Microsoft has 5 other >wives Not married to Microsoft. For the gfx high-end, and servers, IRIX remains the strategic OS. Sun is porting Solaris to IA64 as well (well, it already runs on x86, but that's hardly a success), but I don't think you can seriously say that Scott is going to marry Bill Gates soon because of that ;). Engaged to Intel, that would be another matter. SGI won't be married until the eating of the IA64 pudding has begun, though.