From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 27 05:46:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA19622 for alpha-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 05:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tecumseh.altavista-software.com (tecumseh.altavista-software.com [205.181.164.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA19612 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 05:46:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@3am-software.com) Received: from nowin (1Cust44.max4.boston.ma.ms.uu.net [153.35.71.44]) by tecumseh.altavista-software.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA16540; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:46:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801271346.IAA16540@tecumseh.altavista-software.com> X-Sender: 3ampop@ranier.altavista-software.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:45:56 -0500 To: Yura Socolov From: Matt Thomas Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha Web page Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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