RobertoOrtiz
10-19-2003, 02:29 AM
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"The 64-processor AlphaServer uses EV7 processors, the company said Friday. Previously, the top-end system was the 32-processor GS1280, released in July.
The 64-processor model will be the last in the AlphaServer line, an HP representative said. However, HP plans to update it with a faster processor in 2004, the EV79, which the company said would be the final processor in the Alpha family.
The AlphaServer line began at Digital Equipment and outlasted that company's 1998 acquisition by Compaq Computer. Compaq, though, decided to phase out the Alpha processor, adopting instead Intel's Itanium processor family.
Alpha was respected for its speed, but the chip never caught on widely, despite temporary support from powerful allies, including Microsoft. It competed with chips from HP, Sun Microsystems, IBM and Intel.
HP took over the AlphaServer line when it acquired Compaq in 2002. "
>>link<< (http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-5093416.html?tag=nefd_top)
-R
"The 64-processor AlphaServer uses EV7 processors, the company said Friday. Previously, the top-end system was the 32-processor GS1280, released in July.
The 64-processor model will be the last in the AlphaServer line, an HP representative said. However, HP plans to update it with a faster processor in 2004, the EV79, which the company said would be the final processor in the Alpha family.
The AlphaServer line began at Digital Equipment and outlasted that company's 1998 acquisition by Compaq Computer. Compaq, though, decided to phase out the Alpha processor, adopting instead Intel's Itanium processor family.
Alpha was respected for its speed, but the chip never caught on widely, despite temporary support from powerful allies, including Microsoft. It competed with chips from HP, Sun Microsystems, IBM and Intel.
HP took over the AlphaServer line when it acquired Compaq in 2002. "
>>link<< (http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-5093416.html?tag=nefd_top)
-R