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Re: Off Topic: Microsoft has been busy...



Alexandre Khalil wrote:
>   For one thing, it is not worth it: NT is going for the enterprise
> server market and any common-sensical IT manager will get a dual Pentium
> Pro rather than pay more for a faster single processor Alpha.

That's one thing I learned from Marc - that Digital cut Alpha prices
down enough to make PPro prices look at them from above.  Check
Computer Shopper or something like that.

And now that NT isn't as portable as it wanted to be (that was one
potential advantage of it over UNIX), UNIX might survive yet.

>   But what did Marc say?

That NT on Alpha is very unstable, and slow... (but then NT was
never fast)

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