Tuesday, September 4, 2001

While I Was Gone . . . -- 2:18 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

There were a few interesting stories that popped up over the Labor Day weekend while I was spending some all-too-rare time with my family. Here they are in fun bulleted format.

• Croteam announced a follow-up to their hit Serious Sam. Not many details were given.
• Much to no one's surprise, details have come out regarding new video cards from NVIDIA, the GeForce3 Ultra and the GeForce3 MX. No word on how much the Ultra will cost, other than "a lot".
• Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq for <carl sagan>25 billion</carl sagan> dollars. That's a whole lot of cash for a merger that I'm not sure makes a lot of sense.

J.t.Qbe comments: After reading comp.os.vms for the last few months, this merger suddenly makes a lot of sense. Compaq wants to move above the PC market, but needs a serious clue. HP's already there and stands to gain some good resources from Compaq, which has never seemed to know what to do with DEC/VMS/Alpha(R.I.P.). The hope is that HP will actually back VMS and promote it. The fear is that HP won't.

News for 09/04/2001

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