-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 too bad they're switching to ia64...the itanium is a shitty processor so I here. It's outperformed by the amd opteron/athlon64. On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:01:21PM +0000, Garry Turkington wrote: > Hi, > > Just to complete the pedantry re the Alpha questions: > > Saqib is quite right that there was a NT 4 port for the Alpha. Rumours > also had it that Microsoft abandoned Windows 2000 for Alpha late in the > development phase. The fact that my Alpha BIOS explicitly mentions > Windows 2000 makes me believe this. :) > > Alphas are still in production, but the recently announced EV78 revision > (I think it was) is the last iteration of the architecture. HP (now > owners after the Compaq merger) view the Intel Itanium as their preferred > processor platform and are keen for both Alpha and PA-RISC customers to > migrate in this direction. HP also own VMS which you can still buy. Note > that the world's longest running cluster is a German VMS cluster that's > had continuous operation for over 5 years now. > > And an Alpha 500 would have fared very positively against an equivalently > clocked Pentium III. > > Regards, > Garry > > Garry Turkington > garry.turkington at acm.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYhm59XVrM3ri110RAtqKAKCFxebtJ54xXbUIMVPS0NDPWw980gCdGs9K 08R7VmId1DwFm7zuVgDkDzo= =eyR7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
