Lately, it seems that Compaq is 'abandoning' more than they can, but this is not true.

Along with the obvious market inflation of the tech industry, was an inflation of jobs, ventures, and endeavors within the company as well. Alpha is simply a marketing endeavor that, in the current industry crisis, has become an unneccessary delta of funds and manpower. Intel and AMD obviously have the market when it comes to CPU's, compaq is simply coming to terms with that, and the fact that they don't need to be venturing off course AT ALL until they get their act together...

TJ