Date: Tue, 27 Jan 98 15:46:38 PST From: David Seifert <seifert@sequent.com> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha Message-ID: <199801272346.PAA04112@eng4.sequent.com>
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> Sometimes you have to make decisions based more on marketing reality > than the pursuit of warm technical fuzzies, and I daresay there was > much wailing and gnashing of teeth there at Sequent when you guys > ditched the far more elegant NS32532 architecture in favor of the x86. > Gosh, it almost makes it sound as if Sequent is in bed with Intel now > or something! :-) I'm not speaking for Sequent, or visa-versa. I wasn't at Sequent when they switched from ns32k to x86. (I was at Tek doing ns32k workstations.) I suspect that many of the engineers were/are unhappy. 100% of Sequent's founders came from Intel. The 386 wasn't out yet when Sequent started. > It's not so much where ALPHA is now that worries me, it's where it > will be in 3-5 years. Ever hear of a self-fullfilling prophesy? > No, it only says that *some* free software is ready for prime time in > a *certain* scenario. I didn't mean to imply that all free software was ready for all serious applications. -Dave
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