> From: Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> > Message-ID: <9d8bada7-b597-42e1-99c8-4cc751f83...@comcast.net> > Another part of the puzzle was figuring out how to feed 100 watts of power to > a chip, > and get rid of that amount of heat, neither of which were anywhere > close to what was > done at the time. I still have some of the tech reports that describe that > piece (and I >contributed a wild idea -- which unfortunately DEC didn't get > around to patenting >before the project was shut down).
Back in the mid-90s, there was an outfit in Britain which made some laptops using Alpha processors. There was a rumor inside DECin the same time-frame about DEC engineers prototyping an Alpha-based laptop (which never made it to market). The rumor included the internal code-name... "BURNS". Dick
