[HECnet] Apparently good news from VSI

[Tim Sneddon]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:46 PM Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 22, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Keith Halewood <
Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
> >
> > I might actually go out and buy a cheap alpha or itanic at some point
now….. if such things exist.
>
> I can see an Alpha, but why would you want a wacko architecture created
by Intel?  It's not as if they have any track record of designing nice CPU
architectures.
>

Well, no defense of Intel...However, for anyone using user-mode code it is
just VMS as usual.  The stuff where you start needing to touch the hardware
is interesting or if you worked on compilers can certainly make you feel
like a different person.

As someone else pointed out too, it wasn't an Intel project. It was
originally called PA-WW (for Wide Word).  HP brought Intel to the "party"
and everybody was on board for a while.  However, around 2000/2001 when the
majority of the world realised what a heap it was, HP clung to it because
it was their baby.


Regards, Tim.
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