From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 28 10:32:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07821 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:32:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07816 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:32:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA12453 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.org); Thu, 28 Nov 1996 19:31:21 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA00639; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 19:07:20 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199611281807.TAA00639@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Alpha Based Machines (Was: Re: IBM 57SLC) To: mark@quickweb.com (Mark Mayo) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 19:07:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: peter@taronga.com, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Mark Mayo" at Nov 28, 96 11:09:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Mayo wrote... > On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Peter da Silva wrote: > > > > How many of us now have Alphas? I bought 2 multia's last month one of > > > which has NT on it and one has Linux. A FreeBSD Alpha port might now > > > have enough bodies around to make a good go of it. > I don't think they're racing for PC priced Alpha's > because they're waiting for a 64-bit NT. If you look at pretty much > everything DEC has been doing lately, it can be summarized as sucking up > to Microsoft... They are betting on NT in a big way, and they want to be > the first platform that a 64-bit NT runs on. Internal rumors say the deal > was roughly "We'll give you clusters for NT, you make NT run 64-bit on > our Alpha". With the PPro really getting up there in performance (and > price), the Alpha may finally have a competitor - which I think is good > cause it will attract attention in the business world. The Alpha has the > advantage (real or not) of being 64-bit. If they can convince Mickeysoft > to make a 64-bit NT, they're going to have a foot hold on the high-end NT There is even talk about running NT on the Turbolaser class machines (Alphaserver 8[24]00). Can you say 'Altavista on NT' ? I just visited DEC Colorado Springs and almost everything smells like NT these days (apart from VMS that is). Makes you wonder. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------