I'm looking foward to the release of intel's itanium chip. Why you ask? Simple. The release of itanium running Linux is going to ensure that 64 bit architechtures in the Linux world gets the attention it deserves. This is going to benefit the AlphaLinux community more than anyone else, including intel. Think about it.
All the outstanding bugs that are due to 64 bit issues will get more attention and as a result they'll be fixed faster. Also commercial software houses will port more of their stuff to 64 bits seeing that "oh look there's a market now". It's going to get to the point we're 64 bit Linux runs great and is well supported in general...
Now what hardware are you going to run it on? Seeing that there's really no big benefit of being "binary compatible" in the Linux world since most of the software we use is Open Source anyways. So it comes down to this.
Alpha hardware which already has a proven track record and great community support and is backed heavily by Compaq,Samsung, and Alpha Processor Inc. or Intel's brand new 64 bit baby?
I almost forget to mention the FREE fully optimized C and C++ compilers available from Compaq and their optimized math libraries that boost performance dramaticly.
Let me ask you another question. Which one do you think the average geek will actually be able to purchase and not feel that they have not just squandered their money?
The choice is yours.
Peter -- www.alphalinux.org Peter Petrakis Warrior/Engineer ppetrakis@alphalinux.org "Oh my God! They killed Xena! You bastards!!" " Who the hell are you!? Name's Ash Housewares..." -- www.alphalinux.org
I'm curious given that the author says you have to extract "something" out those vxd files to make this work. That mircocode that is extracted, is it Intel ASM? Would it work on a Alpha?
Agreed. This software would abosolutley SCREAM on Alphas but there's that 32 --> 64 bit issue. Again if it was open sourced in some way simlilar to the license mozilla uses (for example , I'm not a lawyer). Then gentelmen like myself would eagerly go to work on it.
>Instead of buying $20,000 HP or Sun machines you >can by a $5,000-10,000 Intel machine. Then >instead of paying MS 500 a seat for Windows NT >you pay $0 for Linux licenses.
Alot of the Alpha NT user base would go for this. A better OS that takes more advantage of the Alpha chip than NT does AND it can run their software faster. There's more than just Intel out there ya know;)
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Alphas can be either BIG or LITTLE ENDIAN. In Linux they are little endian. Peter
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www.alphalinux.org
I'm looking foward to the release of intel's itanium chip. Why you ask? Simple. The release of itanium running Linux is going to ensure that 64 bit architechtures in the Linux world gets the attention it deserves. This is going to benefit the AlphaLinux community more than anyone else, including intel. Think about it.
,Samsung, and Alpha Processor Inc. or Intel's brand new 64 bit baby?
All the outstanding bugs that are due to 64 bit issues will get more attention and as a result they'll be fixed faster. Also commercial software houses will port more of their stuff to 64 bits seeing that "oh look there's a market now". It's going to get to the point we're 64 bit Linux runs great and is well supported in general...
Now what hardware are you going to run it on? Seeing that there's really no big benefit of being "binary compatible" in the Linux world since most of the software we use is Open Source anyways. So it comes down to this.
Alpha hardware which already has a proven track record and great community support and is backed heavily by Compaq
I almost forget to mention the FREE fully optimized C and C++ compilers available from Compaq and their optimized math libraries that boost performance dramaticly.
Let me ask you another question. Which one do you think the average geek will actually be able to purchase and not feel that they have not just squandered their money?
The choice is yours.
Peter
--
www.alphalinux.org
Peter Petrakis Warrior/Engineer ppetrakis@alphalinux.org
"Oh my God! They killed Xena! You bastards!!"
" Who the hell are you!? Name's Ash Housewares..."
--
www.alphalinux.org
I'm curious given that the author says you have to extract "something" out those vxd files to make this work. That mircocode that is extracted, is it Intel ASM? Would it work on a Alpha?
Ahhh. So how would a EV6 500MHz Alpha Compare against a 500MHz G4. I'd love to see some benchmarks. Peter
Please Santa could I have a UP2000 with dual 750's
and a 8MB L2 on each? I've been good, really !
;-)
Peter
Here are a few vendors in no particular order.
www.thelinuxstore.com
www.dcginc.com
www.aspsys.com
www.microway.com
and you can find a how bunch of vendor listings
at http://www.alphalinux.org/hardware/vendors.shtml
and for general Alpha information please see www.alphalinux.org
Peter
Maybe I'll see my favorite kick ass ranger in this flick. You know who I'm talking about.
Agreed. This software would abosolutley SCREAM on Alphas but there's that 32 --> 64 bit issue. Again if it was open sourced in some way simlilar to the license mozilla uses (for example , I'm not a lawyer). Then gentelmen like myself would eagerly go to work on it.
See www.alphalinux.org
--Peter
testing, /. keeps wrapping my sig
>Instead of buying $20,000 HP or Sun machines you >can by a $5,000-10,000 Intel machine. Then >instead of paying MS 500 a seat for Windows NT
;)
>you pay $0 for Linux licenses.
Alot of the Alpha NT user base would go for this.
A better OS that takes more advantage of the Alpha
chip than NT does AND it can run their software faster. There's more than just Intel out there ya know