Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:43:07 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of Alpha support and Oracle. Message-ID: <14401.30380.556243.951890@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199911280153.RAA96659@mass.cdrom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911271643440.544-100000@current1.whistle.com> <199911280153.RAA96659@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith writes: > > > > I am not sure of thw state of things but if someone wanted to run Oracle-8 > > and had an idea in their mind that they'd like to run it in an Alpha, > > tehn teh following questions would need to be answered (and I dont know > > the answers) > > > > 2/ is there a binary version of Oracle we can run on the alpha? > > The Tru64 version _might_ work. I have left my latest working copy of the osf1-ulator for -current at http://www.freebsd.org/~gallatin/osf1.tar.gz Really, I'll get around to committing it soon. Really... > > 3/ does the alpha give a big increase in speed over the same dollars spent > > on x86? > > Not under Oracle at the low end, no. It might depend on your definition of low end. I don't know what Oracle stresses (probably memory & I/O systems). In those catagories, an $8k Compaq Professional Workstation xp1000 will kick sand in the face of any x86 hardware I've seen which is in the same price range. I haven't played with a rambus based machines yet though.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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