RE: Mersenne: Whither goest thou, Alpha? (Was: EFF and 10,000,000 digits)

1999-06-11 Thread Willmore, David
Ernst Mayer: > David Willmore writes: > > > >> 2) Was it Intel that bought the Alpha rights? It might have been IBM > but > >> was NOT Compac. > > > >2) Yes, it was Compaq. Intel bought foundry technology that is used on > the > >StrongARM as well as the StrongARM archetecture itself. >

Mersenne: Whither goest thou, Alpha? (Was: EFF and 10,000,000 digits)

1999-06-10 Thread Ernst W. Mayer
David Willmore writes: > >> 2) Was it Intel that bought the Alpha rights? It might have been IBM but >> was NOT Compac. > >2) Yes, it was Compaq. Intel bought foundry technology that is used on the >StrongARM as well as the StrongARM archetecture itself. Actually, things are tad more complicat