[clug] ALPHA machines??

[Stephen Jenkin]

HP produces PA/RISC CPU's.  [PA == 'Precision Architecture']

I know in 1996 there were regular newspaper articles about HP & Intel
co-producing the 'IA64'.  HP was contributing it's RISC expertise, Intel
their production & process.  HP was to replace it's Unix servers with
IA64.  Probably started 94/95. Was it supposed to deliver 98/99??  Seem to
remember it ran over by a very long time...  HP has had to modify its
roadmap & produce faster PA/RISC versions.

I've not followed the performance of the IA64 - pretty average 32-bit &
integer performance I believe [for 500W+ ??]

There was a paper at AUUG in the early or mid 90's about the _string_
handling performance of a Cray X/MP.  It ran about as fast as a VAX 11/780
[a contemporary system].  This was a machine bought at Bell Labs & shared
by a number of groups.  Flops =/= useful performance...

Hope this ramble was useful :-)


Steve Jenkin, Unix Sys Admin
0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Jepri wrote:

> Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:30:16PM +1000, Jepri wrote:
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> >
> >>>I have also got an old AlphaStation 250 running Debian 3.0. A bit slow
> >>>when it comes to flying some of the Koffice stuff, but works just fine
> >>>for most stuff (even got the Sound Card working :-).
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>That's good to hear.  I thought that HP had ended the alpha line because 
> >>it was pretty much just competition for their own RISC offerings 
> >>(whatever they are).
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Itanium, or as The Register gleefully calls it: Itanic.
> >
> >  
> >
> I was under the impression that Intel did the Itanic.  Still, wouldn't 
> suprise me if they got HP in to help.
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