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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 29), Wilko Bulte said:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:19:30PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > I also mentioned recently (in the last couple of days) that we
> > should worry more about sparc64 than alpha. Simply because I think
> > alpha is on it's way down and should already be a tier 2 platform
> > and sparc64 is still on its way up ... sort of.
> 
> In my book sparc64 is also with one foot in the grave. As is Sun
> itself.

Fujitsu makes sparc-compatible CPUs, too, so it'll be harder to kill
the entire architecture like HP did with the Alpha.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com