7 May
2021
7 May
'21
5:36 p.m.
From: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
Message-ID: <9D8BADA7-B597-42E1-99C8-4CC751F838C5 at 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