Re: June 12th - Compaq executive: Alpha central to 64-bit plans

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear InfoWorld,

Someone ought to inform Mr. John Rando that if he intends to
" lead [64-bit computing] with Alpha", he had better forget
about the unavailable Merced chip and instead concentrate on
a proven architecture that already has a 2+ year track
record of delivering blistering 64 bit server peformance.

Yes, while the Wintel industry was raucously touting it's
(somewhat painfull) migration from a 16 bit tojust a 32 bit
Operating systems IBM's AS/400 quietly moved from it's 8
year old 48 bit IMPI architecture to the new 64 bit RISC
architecture.  This migration was made virtually without
reprogramming even while our enhanced Operating System
continued to support all our existing software.  And best of
all we still don't reboot our entire system every time an
application program hiccups.

But given that Compaq uses AS/400's in their company, maybe
Mr. Rando knows this already.


jte

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John Earl Lighthouse Software Inc.
8514 71st NW Gig Harbor, WA 98335
253-858-7388 johnearl@lns400.com

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