3rd May 1999 Archive

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UK boffin plans Linux box for comeback

The rumours that Sir Clive Sinclair is playing with computers again are strengthening

Sir Clive Sinclair, the 80s UK computer guru, is being strongly tipped to make as comeback with a machine running Linux. It's not Sir Clive's fault that the latest rumour outbreak was in yesterday's Sunday Express, although the material the Express majored on -- his love life -- is his fault, we suppose. Rather more worrying for …

Business 3 May 1999, 07:22
More Gates smoking emails support Caldera case

Anyone seen a Korean MS app from 1989-90? Caldera would love to hear from you

Microsoft did build software that checked for the presence of rival operating system DR-DOS into its own MS-DOS, according to evidence produced by Caldera. There also seems to be some evidence that the company at least intended to use some international versions of Windows to stop applications running with DR-DOS. Microsoft has …

Business 3 May 1999, 08:19
Can AMD seize the corporate day?

Analysis He may get by with some help from his friends

Despite getting heckled by an octegenarian, ceding control of day to day issues to Atiq Raza, and appointing Bob "walk in closet" Palmer to the board, Jerry Sanders III, CEO of AMD remains upbeat about his company's future. So much so, that Sanders wheeled out his famous gorilla slides again. He is fond of describing Intel as a …

Business 3 May 1999, 09:23
FTC to appoint guardian for Alpha

A year ago Trustees to look after future of endangered chip

From The Register No. 75, May 1998 The Federal Trading Commission (FTC) is making an extraordinary condition on Digital's sale of its semiconductor operations to Intel - a trustee will have to be appointed to supervise the licensing of Alpha to other manufacturers, and if the FTC doesn't agree with decisions that are made, it …

Business 3 May 1999, 09:38
HP buys Transoft

It's storage area network stuff

Hewlett Packard said today it has bought Transoft for an undisclosed amount. The move is part of HP's efforts to grow the storage area network (SAN) market, and to compete with companies like Compaq. Transoft makes fibre channel based SAN networks for the NT and Unix manager, including SAN manager. ®

Business 3 May 1999, 13:40
Intel talks 600MHz StrongArm

Power down means performance up -- next year

Chip giant Intel said today that it will introduce StrongARM devices of speeds between 150MHz to 600MHz but with consumption of only 40 to 450 milliwatts. Intel's nextgen StrongArm chips will use superpipelined Risc architecture including seven stage and eight stage memory pipelining to hit the higher clock speeds. It will also …

Business 3 May 1999, 13:47
Compaq slashes prices on Linux Alpha servers

This is the beginning of the endgame

Compaq today announced it has cut the price of its Alpha low end servers by $2,000 for the Tru64 DS20 boxes and by 20 per cent for the Linux boxes. The dual server boxes are set to fall to a level where they directly challenge Intel servers. A DS20 using two Alpha 500MHz 21264 chips now costs under $12,000. Prices of other Alpha …

Business 3 May 1999, 15:49