Re: Sandia says alpha the best chip!

From: Alan Greig (greigaln_at_netscape.net)
Date: 04/29/05 

Date: 29 Apr 2005 11:49:28 -0700

Chris wrote:

> From an OpenVMS perspective, I was told in confidence some time ago
that
> quite a bit of effort went in to making the VAX-to-Alpha port
> hardware-independent, and the Alpha-to-Itanium port would take it
even
> further, making an 8086-64 port "relatively easy" (not my words)
>
> Where is the Opteron-port that could pull everyone's (except Intel)
bacon
> out of the impending fire?

Intel would be happy to see a port as it would run just fine on their
future super Xeons which some of the ex Alpha engineers are probably
now working on. 

-- 
Alan Greig

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