On my workplace we employ almost every major Unix "distribution" -- we have Tru64, Irix, the ubiquitos Solaris and one RedHat . Sun people (and not the ones that are market oriented) emphasize all day long before our system mangers that Tru64 will be killed as it competes and impedes HP-UX-- and that's the Alpha fate also . I found the Tru64 development tools very backward compared to the Solaris workshop, the SGI debugger (both very good for multi-processing or multi-threading debugging) or even the KDevelop. But Alpha itself it's great for DSP or image processing (i.e heavy floating point computation).
Also, why it was writen that an 266Mhz Alpha = 700 Mhz Intel. AFAIK the RISC pipeline from the cache to the CPU is of 5 intructions- not of 3. Taking into account more assembler intruction for the RISC, I still think that for intensive floating point calculation an 266 Mhz more than beats a 1 GHz Intel. On some benchmarks I've seen, only an Irix MIPS could beat a comparable Alpha on intensive floating point calculation application (Ram and cache size almost the same). Nadav Har'El wrote: > 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] ================================================================= 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]
