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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:55:51 -0500
From:      Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net>
To:        Tony Alexander <kojak@i.am>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sony Playstations..
Message-ID:  <19990105175551.A6163@tidalwave.net>
In-Reply-To: <36913DFD.41C67EA6@i.am>; from Tony Alexander on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 10:17:33PM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.SCO.3.96.990105133807.7236K-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> <36913DFD.41C67EA6@i.am>

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On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 10:17:33PM +0000, Tony Alexander wrote:
> processors and possibly dropping RISC altogether. I also read somewhere
> that Intel bought up the alpha risc processors *sniffle*.

Intel did buy Digital Semiconductor, but with a twist: Intel only has
_manufacture_ rights for Alpha -- Compaq owns the design and name, by way of
the DEC merger last year. 

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