[Beowulf] Register article on Opteron - disagree

Alan Grimes alangrimes at starpower.net
Mon Nov 22 09:12:07 PST 2004


Greg Lindahl wrote:

>>arrg!  as irritating as the article is (in it's misleadingness),
>>it *is* true that AMD is not doing a good job of marketing the Opteron.
>>    
>>
>Great, now we can look forward to years and years of discussions about
>AMD's marketing, just like Amiga, Digital's Alpha business, etc! I
>can't wait!
>  
>

When I was shopping for a good SMP box, my first impulse was to get an 
Alpha.

I contacted a company and the quote I got was $11,000 -- Everything that 
was not the mobo and CPUs made up only $1,000 of that figure. I 
eventually put togeather a dual athlon and the bones only cost me $600.

=(

I love the Alpha!



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