Given that none of this may be true - read the articles - it's all speculation at present - the one thing that HP will not inherit is the Alpha Processor. Compaq sold the patents, chip fabrication plants, development, and developers to Intel in late June. Follow this link at Compaq.
Intel will use the Alpha technology to improve the IA64 line.
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Given that none of this may be true - read the articles - it's all speculation at present - the one thing that HP will not inherit is the Alpha Processor. Compaq sold the patents, chip fabrication plants, development, and developers to Intel in late June. Follow this link at Compaq.
Intel will use the Alpha technology to improve the IA64 line.
> ...so it's pretty easy to hook them up to a simulated body and they are happy and stuff.
I don't know if it's easy, but I'm impressed that anyone can tell if a slug is happy or not...