On Sun, Jun 23, 2002, Shaul Karl wrote about "Re: Alpha XL 266": > will try to convert you to Tru64. For example, Tru64 is able to run > their native compiler for which they will show you many benchmarks that > prove how much it is superior comparing to gcc.
I wonder what will happen with Digital's "third degree", a debugging tool similar in purpose to Purify... I hope they will port it to Linux (hopefully also to the 386), it will be extremely useful. I once heard a lecture (in a Usenix convention) by the guy who wrote this "third degree" (and the "atom" intrumentation program on which it was based), who happens to be the same guy who later started Altavista. Two other guys in Digital's SRC (Systems Research Center, in Palo Alto CA) invented block-sorting, on which the bzip algorithm is based. And of course DEC was the company who made the computers on which Unix was first made famous, the PDP and the VAX series... Yes, a lot of interesting stuff came out of Digital in the past. But the 3 people I mentioned above are (I think) no longer with Digital (or DEC, Compaq or HP, whatever its name-du-jour is), and I only see announcements of them stopping making things, not making anything new :( I hope Carly Fiorina (the HP CEO) knows what she's doing.. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jun 23 2002, 14 Tammuz 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Seen on a sign outside a church: "This is http://nadav.harel.org.il |a C H _ _ C H ... what's missing?" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
