On July 19, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've not been looking at the DEC gear recently,
but last I did look the number
of Alpha boardc and CPUs seemed to have gone down drastically. I think
the supply is drying up. Seriously, unless you need 64-bit, or are like me
and running OpenVMS, the question becomes, why? What you're going to be
able to find and afford isn't going to be that fast compared to a
Pentium III or IV Motherboard and processor which is likely to cost less.
I dunno, man. *I* sure won't run Intel-architecture machines.
I'd be seriously surprised if Alphas were drying up. There were a
LOT of them made. Machines of which there were far fewer, and that
are far older, can still be found readily.
Having no better explanation, I respectfully submit that this
"shortage" of Alpha hardware is due to random market fluctuations.
-Dave McGuire