alphas and linux

[Alex Snow]

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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
> 
> 
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