Re: List active ?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Sat, 2003-10-11 14:41:59 +0200, Oliver Pitzeier <oliver@linux-kernel.at>
wrote in message <200310111244.h9BCi7QD021471@indianer.linux-kernel.at>:
> Hi George!
> 
> > On Friday 10 October 2003 11:17 pm, Alan Bort wrote:
> > > And lets be realistic, there are not many Alpha left in this world, 
> > 
> > There are many Alphas remaining.  Many that run Linux.  Many 
> > more that run Tru64 and OpenVMS.  You can still buy shinny new
> > alpha systems. 
> 
> But what for should anyone buy alphas today? If they need 64-bit, they buy Itanium, which is cheaper... If they need good performance, they buy a four-way-Xeon-system - which _is_ faster than a ES45 for example....

Try to get a SMP box in the *really* high performance area. A 32 CPU
Itanium (is something like that available) won't for sure outperform
today's fastest Alpha. At some time, price isn't a question. Only raw
performance... Then, you buy Alpha, MIPS, UltraSparc, PA-RISC.

> > Alpha is  going away, but it is not gone yet.
> 
> HP is letting Alpha die... They didn't annouce the newest alpha-chip a few months ago (EV78!?)...

Indeed. Alpha is dieing. However, HP is quite in problems there.
Nowadays, they have i386, Itanium, Alpha and their own processor,
PA-RISC...

MfG, JBG

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