Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:45:56 -0500 From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> To: Yura Socolov <yura@matrix.binary.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha Web page Message-ID: <199801271346.IAA16540@tecumseh.altavista-software.com> In-Reply-To: <19980127072011.01389@matrix.binary.net> References: <19980127135841.61631@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <199801251804.TAA01299@panke.panke.de> <16311.885757044@time.cdrom.com> <19980127135841.61631@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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At 08:20 AM 1/27/98 , you wrote: >> > > Is there a FreeBSD/Alpha Web page? >> I wrote a little page. See >> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/freebsd-alpha/ > >I hate to be the one saying this, but now, given alpha's questionable >future, based on Compaq's and DEC's decision to kill any progress in favor >of elite Intel's chips, do people here still generally think there is >much point in continuing this port? There has been no decision to kill Alpha. Why would Compaq want to lose 2+ years of marketleadership in 64-bit computing? >I would personally love to see it happen, and i'm sure there will still >be a lot of alpha hardware around for quite some time, but will there >be any future without further development of the hardware? > >Compaq will continue working on alpha? Right. Actually they will. Visualization is one area where Alpha is very strong (consider Titanic was done on Alphas). -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt/ Nashua, NH Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message
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