Well, if I recall right, from the press release and other news bits,
it's a non-exclusive licsense that Intel got from Compaq. So I do believe
that AMD can licsense some stuff still. 

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! -----Original Message-----
! From: xunil [mailto:xunil@lactating-monkeys.net]
! Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:10 PM
! To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
! Subject: RE: (OT) Compaq Tosses the Alpha To Intel...
! 
! 
! Part of Intel's selling point on IA-64 is that it will be 
! able to run IA-32 programs 
! w/o special software. That's not true of Alpha processors, 
! and I don't think Intel 
! has the time to redesign the Alpha CPU to handle IA-32. I 
! think Intel's more 
! interested in keeping the Alpha technology to themselves and 
! away from AMD (re: my 
! previous post and the recent post about Hyper-whatever).
! 
! Wes
! xunil@lactating-monkeys.net
! 
! ---- Original Message ----
! From:		David Woyciesjes
! Date:		Tue 6/26/01 11:28
! To:		'thorpej@zembu.com'
! Cc:		'port-alpha@netbsd.org', 'AlphaNT'
! Subject:	RE: (OT) Compaq Tosses the Alpha To Intel...
! 
! From: Jason R Thorpe [mailto:thorpej@zembu.com]
! ! 
! ! On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:49:59AM -0400, David Woyciesjes wrote:
! ! 
! ! > Yeah, you are quite right, but IIRC, the Itanium isn't 
! ! >quite in production
! ! > yet, and 2 years seems like it might be enough time for 
! ! > Intel to pull off
! ! > the switch, right?
! ! 
! ! No.  The Alpha is not the IA-64 architecture.  They can't 
! ! just re-label Alpha and call it IA-64.
! ! 
! 
! 	Yes, you're right again. I guess this means I'm babbling and not
! making enough sense :-)...
! 	My thought, er point is this: Maybe Intel realised that 
! the current
! IA-64 is crap, so now they can really look at the Alpha 
! Processor, and bring
! all the right stuff over to the Itanium. Which, IMHO, will 
! probably be the
! whole Alpha processor technology, over the course of two or 
! three years.
! 
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