Anyone running on Alpha
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I am curious to know how many of you guys are running on Alpha processor. Does anyone has any statistics? My assumption is 10% of all windows NT/2000 installation use alpha. Anyone has any better statistic. Step back, rub your eyes, take a deep breath, stretch a bit, and reflect on the relative importance of CP, CG, the age / travel time sustained by supposedly 'fresh' cheese curds, and Life in General. - Shog9
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I am curious to know how many of you guys are running on Alpha processor. Does anyone has any statistics? My assumption is 10% of all windows NT/2000 installation use alpha. Anyone has any better statistic. Step back, rub your eyes, take a deep breath, stretch a bit, and reflect on the relative importance of CP, CG, the age / travel time sustained by supposedly 'fresh' cheese curds, and Life in General. - Shog9
One place I worked had a couple of Alpha's as NT/2K servers. Everywhere else I've been used x86 servers - unless it was a Unix mainframe or something like that. I don't know stats. :| Jeremy Falcon Imputek "..." - Paul Watson 07-17
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I am curious to know how many of you guys are running on Alpha processor. Does anyone has any statistics? My assumption is 10% of all windows NT/2000 installation use alpha. Anyone has any better statistic. Step back, rub your eyes, take a deep breath, stretch a bit, and reflect on the relative importance of CP, CG, the age / travel time sustained by supposedly 'fresh' cheese curds, and Life in General. - Shog9
Well, I would like to do that again very much. Here, a bit of bittersweet memories: in late 1996, I got DEC Alpha PC on 333 Mhz, it had many features that normal (no name) PCs will get years later, you could boot from cd or internal/external scsi device, etc. It was running NT 4.0, SQL 6.5, and VC++ 4.1, all alpha proc. releases, and it was faster than any pc in the lab. I almost cried when we finished project and I had to return it back (it was actually leased from DEC). In 1997, DEC shop here (BC) was dismantling and selling brand new units (555 Mhz) internally to the employees for the $2100 CDN. I found too late someone inside to buy it for me - they were all gone. Awesome machine - I would like to have something like it again on my desk as a second PC. Damn Compaq killed it!:((
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I am curious to know how many of you guys are running on Alpha processor. Does anyone has any statistics? My assumption is 10% of all windows NT/2000 installation use alpha. Anyone has any better statistic. Step back, rub your eyes, take a deep breath, stretch a bit, and reflect on the relative importance of CP, CG, the age / travel time sustained by supposedly 'fresh' cheese curds, and Life in General. - Shog9
I actually had a pre-release Alpha. I think it was the model 3100 or 3500. I got it about a year prior to release in the early ninties. I was using a 64bit machine even before a 32 bit version of windows even existed. Oh the memories. Tim Smith "Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution." Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
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I am curious to know how many of you guys are running on Alpha processor. Does anyone has any statistics? My assumption is 10% of all windows NT/2000 installation use alpha. Anyone has any better statistic. Step back, rub your eyes, take a deep breath, stretch a bit, and reflect on the relative importance of CP, CG, the age / travel time sustained by supposedly 'fresh' cheese curds, and Life in General. - Shog9
I'd be surprised if anybody is still running NT on alpha since it is no longer a supported platform. I dont know but I dont think a version of Windows 2000 for Alpha was ever officially released and sanctioned .. plus, whats the latest version of SQL Server to officially be released for that platform? I remember developing for the alpha .. what always struck me as odd was that although compute stuff really rocked the gui seemed a bit sluggish .. I had two development machines, a p6-200 and an Alpha 533 both with the same Matrox graphics card and 128 meg RAM yet the gui on the p6-200 seemed peppier. It could also have been due to running NT workstation on the p6-200 versus NT Server on the Alpha. Anyhow, the Alpha machine now sits sadly in the corner of my office collecting dust .. I dont think it's been powered on in over 2 years .. if anybody wants it let me know
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I am curious to know how many of you guys are running on Alpha processor. Does anyone has any statistics? My assumption is 10% of all windows NT/2000 installation use alpha. Anyone has any better statistic. Step back, rub your eyes, take a deep breath, stretch a bit, and reflect on the relative importance of CP, CG, the age / travel time sustained by supposedly 'fresh' cheese curds, and Life in General. - Shog9
Hmmmm - got a DEC Alpha workstation running VMS(!) @ work - but then we're also still using VAX/VMS 'cause it's what our Ada cross-compiler toolset (for 680x0 :eek: ) runs on. And for you VMS junkies out there...TPU rules! :) Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
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Hmmmm - got a DEC Alpha workstation running VMS(!) @ work - but then we're also still using VAX/VMS 'cause it's what our Ada cross-compiler toolset (for 680x0 :eek: ) runs on. And for you VMS junkies out there...TPU rules! :) Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
Stuart Dootson wrote: And for you VMS junkies out there...TPU rules! I spent almost 7 years doing Ada development on VMS .... ah, the good ole days :-)
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Hmmmm - got a DEC Alpha workstation running VMS(!) @ work - but then we're also still using VAX/VMS 'cause it's what our Ada cross-compiler toolset (for 680x0 :eek: ) runs on. And for you VMS junkies out there...TPU rules! :) Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
I haven't seen a VAX in 20+ years! Glad to know they still run:-D Ada was a fun language... except that when I was learning it, the contract required us to code in Ada using a validated compiler, and there weren't any yet! Typical of the US military:( "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."