CompuServe Messages

>> DEC offers a new line of PC's which you can have a dual processor motherboard configured with only one Pentium processor to start. << I have a suspicion that if the alpha becomes a viable alternative (I say "if" because I don't know if r5 will run on the alpha yet), it might be possible to do a motherboard swap (from Pentium to Alpha) for a similar or lesser price than buying a DEC machine with daughter-board upgradeability. Last time I talked to DEC their prices on alpha upgrades seemed outrageously high. This supposes that 3rd party M/board manufacturers sell alpha based boards. I'm not sure if they do. Anybody know? Whatever happens it's going to be an interesting time comparing benchmarks if we have so many new CPU choices. I'm still leaning towards favouring Intel, because the P6 is on the horizon and the x86 software base is just so huge. Contemplating moving to a completely new architecture is kindof scary.