From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <06352a956e36cee642ff5532f4e4d3af@kw.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:28:27 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ffbae6927046e04c5c17011 Subject: Re: [9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a5faf5a2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --e89a8ffbae6927046e04c5c17011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:16 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > > I liked it for the same reason I > > liked those Cell processors - I'm weird. > > a lot of people really hated it because it killed alpha... > > Yes that was very sad. I liked Alpha too, but business reasons caused it to die more than Itanium as a technology. --e89a8ffbae6927046e04c5c17011 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:16 AM, andrey = mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> =A0I liked it for the same reason I
> liked those Cell processors - I'm weird.

a lot of people really hated it because it killed alpha...

Yes that was very sad. =A0 I liked Alpha too, but bus= iness reasons caused it to die more than Itanium as a technology. =A0=A0

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