Waxing Philosophical

[Richard Irving]

Grrrr...%$$&&!


   S/Athlons/Athlon/

Dohhh.... Bart!


Richard Irving wrote:
> Eugene Chu wrote:
> 
>> I started using Alphas in our project for number crunching type apps, and
>> they were much better than the x86 platforms of the time.  Unfortunately,
>> the rest of the industry seemed to think that it was a dead platform,
>> so there was very little support of commercial software.  It became a
>> self-fulfilling prophecy; the lack of support made the platform less
>> useful, which accelerated its demise.
>>
>> We are now running Opterons for this reason.  It's important to be able
>> to get support for certain functionality; home-grown only takes you so
>> far.
>>
>> eyc
> 
> 
>   Couldn't find any open-source Unix apps ?  ;)
> 
>   And BTW, did you know that AMD's Opteron, and Athlon
>  line were based upon designs that the Alpha Team Sold to them,
>  as Compaq acquired Digital, and gave them the boot  ?
> 
>   So much so, the original Athlons Chips came
>   with an EV6 DIGITAL BUS based architecture!
> 
>   "The King is Dead, Long Live the King!"
> 
> 
>    http://www.active-hardware.com/english/reviews/processor/athlon-1ghz.htm
> 
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