Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> On 28 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > I keep debating the decision to keep the SROM. Not that it would
> > really make sense to burn 100 little parts, but I'm not terribly
> > comfortable with the SROM.
>
> I doubt I will change this, since the Alpha is a dead-end at this point
> (see Compaq announcements on this topic). Alphas come to an end in 2004.
A chip is only EOL'd when customers stop buying it ;-)
tulip 21143 NIC has been EOL'd since 1993 I think, but since people
refuse to pony up for Intel's undocumented NIC chips, Intel is forced to
continue manufacturing 21143's.
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