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- From: rick@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca
- Subject: Re: RISC Amiga
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.203749.1@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca>
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- References: <1grkkgINN7gg@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <BzH6CL.44H@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Dec19.054914.5047@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <BzIB18.KtG@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:37:49 GMT
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- In article <BzIB18.KtG@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- >
- > If this was possible, DEC would be doing it with vax/vms software.
- > They aren't. They are making peope recompile it.
- >
- not everything. alpha/vms has a utility called VEST which will convert
- a vax/vms .EXE into an alpha/vms .EXE. there is apparently a decrease
- in performance in doing this instead of compiling, but this is supposed
- to be sufficient for most user code.
-
- > In time, the alpha will be out of date! Please don't spew the DEC
- > marketing crap that maintains it is "viable for the next 20 years."
- > Bullshit. Newer, better, more advanced CPUs will come along.
- the first sentence is certainly true. 20 years? possibly - the
- VAX architecture is well over 10 years old and has scaled by about two
- orders of magnitude in performance. i would not be surprised if the
- alpha - designed to be scalable - does at least as well, i wouldn't be
- all that surprised. in comp.arch about two years ago, someone at mips
- commented that dec had a lot of money and some of the best vlsi
- engineers on the planet; one should never rule them out.
-
- rp
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