Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:13:07 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Justin P. Michel" <justinmichel@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, <aja2@ra.msstate.edu> Subject: Re: alpha vs i386 Message-ID: <15356.42371.903393.208024@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <107012852@toto.iv>
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[Context recovered from top posting.] Justin P. Michel <justinmichel@home.com> types: > From: "AJ Adams" > > Do I need alpha or i386? My specs are listed below. > Alpha is a separate CPU line, that I honestly don't know too much about. :) I can summarize everything most people need to know about Alpha CPUs in one sentence: They've been end-of-lifed by Compaq, and can be considered a dead architecture. For a bit more background, they were designed by DEC, which Compaq bought. For a time, they were the CPU for the fastest single-cpu workstations around. I believe they were the first processor ever to be clocked to a gigahertz, it having been done in the DEC labs back around '90. I have personal reasons relating to SPIM for having no regrets over their passing. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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