Looking to give away *old* linux PCs

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:36:08AM -0500, Yanni Chiu wrote:
> And you don't want the Alpha. If it's a DEC Alpha, wouldn't that be a  
> museum piece. IIRC, DEC shutdown their Alpha cpu division, and many of  
> those engineers went to AMD.

Actually they sold that division to intel as part of the settlement of
a lawsuit (that intel lost I believe).  I think intel is still making
a few alpha chips.  Where do you think they got hyperthreading from and
lately the quickpath bus?

> BTW, I'm looking at my bookshelf for old software and manuals. Maybe  
> I'll take a drive out there in the spring/summer.

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Len Sorensen
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