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Alpha processors massively discounted

What can be the future?
Sun Nov 04 2001, 17:39
A BRITISH OUTLET is selling a chip which according to its manufacturer has a full 25 years ahead of it for a bargain £9 excluding value added tax.

The Alpha 21164-EB 366MHz processor with a heat sink which itself normally costs over $20 is up for grabs at this address, which also sells specialist Xeon chips too.

All we need now is to find a place which discounts motherboards near the end of their existence, get ourselves a copy of XP for the Alpha platform, and we'll have a supersoaraway and probably overclockable system too.

Compaq told the INQUIRER as recently as last Yuletide that the 64-bit Alpha chip is so well designed that we wouldn't need to think of swapping to a so-called "industry standard" platform until 2025.

The rest, of course, is history... µ

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