Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 23:39:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@argus> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One last call for a show of hands on the ALPHA port... Message-ID: <199705070439.XAA06577@argus> In-Reply-To: <7374.862865457@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 5, 97 01:50:57 pm
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In reply: > Even if you've sent me mail on this topic before, please check in > again so that I know you're still available and interested. > > Basically, I've now got 4 machines on the way from Digital (3 > Workstation class with single 433Mhz CPUs, one SMP/Server class with 2 > CPUs) and I want to make sure that they all wind up in the right > hands. i've been looking at getting a 275MHz motherboard and building a system around it... non-DEC board, i forget the brand off the top of my head, been nursemaiding my mule on life support, it died friday night.. getting a chevy cavalier to replace it with, and thus it will now be late summer before i can even think about alpha... i will still be interested in helping out at some point... i concur, the real key to success with alpha is going to be in the compiler though... nobody is going to switch from DEC Unix [bad as it is] unless they have a good vectorizing, pipeline-scheduleing, multi-cpu capable compiler... think [dynamically?] cpu-assignable threads... a simple scalar compiler is a waste of alpha capability... jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2M, 70cm, KPC-3+ - kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam
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