24 Apr
2020
24 Apr
'20
6:38 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:37 PM Tim Sneddon <tim at sneddon.id.au> wrote:
> > On Apr 22, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Keith Halewood < Keith.Halewood at
pitbulluk.org> wrote:
> I can see an Alpha, but why would you want a wacko architecture created
by Intel? It's not as if they have any track record of designing nice CPU
architectures.
Well, no defense of Intel...However, for anyone using user-mode code it is just VMS
as usual. The stuff where you start needing to touch the
hardware is interesting or if you worked on compilers can certainly make
you feel like a different person.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:46 PM Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
wrote:
>
> > I might actually go out and buy a cheap alpha or itanic at some point
now?.. if such things exist.
As someone else pointed out too, it wasn't an Intel project. It was
originally
called PA-WW (for Wide Word). HP brought Intel to the "party"
and everybody was on board for a while. However, around 2000/2001 when the
majority of the world realised what a heap it was, HP clung to it because
it was their baby.
I did mean to include this link too:
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/epic.html
Regards, Tim.