gruisinger

The album came out in 1989 and this was well before the Internet so a telephone number (not my home number) was printed on the album for people to call with their answer. Many people figured it out.

I feel like a bit of a failure. I have owned this album for two decades, and never figured out the answer. I don't suppose you'd tell us now would you?

If you are ever in Kansas City, consider hitting up Worlds of Fun, which has long had a Peanuts-themed section.

From a purely technical standpoint I can appreciate the Itanium architecture. But I have never understood what it's purpose was from a marketing standpoint. As a long time Vax and Alpha guy, I had high hopes for Itanium, but just like Alpha, it went nowhere outside of VMS and HPUX (and even there I'd say its adoption was less than expected). Unlike Alpha though, it really had to take hold elsewhere in order to succeed, which of course did not happen. I see Wikipedia says it was the fourth most deployed microprocessor architecture as of 2008, but it was being beat out by SPARC at that time. I wonder where it is now.

I still use Alpha processors daily, and adore them. I was not happy when Compaq killed the Alpha line. Alpha was ahead of its time in some respects. Do you think the Alpha architecture could have continued to evolve and been competitive with other 64-bit processors, or had it become too dated to be saved?

I was there earlier in the year, it's still great fun.