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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:53:04 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO
Message-ID:  <20030929195304.GA74320@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030929193516.GA7976@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <200309291400.h8TE0IVN091981@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309291401420.24400-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20030929180732.GA7088@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030929191930.GB78284@ns1.xcllnt.net> <20030929193516.GA7976@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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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.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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