Path: news.mitre.org!blanket.mitre.org!agate!howland.erols.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: dillon@best.net (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: What Does DEC Have Left? (was: Current Unpleasantness Resolved) Date: 6 Nov 1997 15:03:12 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 650 964 BEST Lines: 26 Message-ID: <63tibg$6h3$1@flea.best.net> References: <6342ds$ak1$2@joe.rice.edu> <63qpdl$d56$1@flea.best.net> <5ln2jiy5gz.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu> <63tc8r$fbh@tooting.netapp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: flea.best.net X-Trace: 878857394 28679 dillon 206.184.139.132 Xref: news.mitre.org comp.os.vms:182556 comp.sys.dec:58906 comp.sys.intel:140850 comp.sys.mips:6592 :In article <63tc8r$fbh@tooting.netapp.com>, Guy Harris wrote: :>Stefan Monnier wrote: :>>dillon@best.net (Matt Dillon) writes: :>>> Well, as far as an Alpha goes you pretty much have to run it 64 bits. :>> :>>I fail to see why! :> :>As far as I know, Microsoft failed to see why, either.... :> :>(I.e., as far as I know, NT runs Alphas as 32-bit processors, with :>32-bit pointers and, presumably, 32-bit "long"s, although "__int64" or :>whatever is presumably implemented using 64-bit registers and 64-bit :>insructions, unlike the way it's implemented on 32-bit platforms.) :>-- :>Reply, or follow up, but don't do both, please. :> :>postmaster@localhost :>postmaster@[127.0.0.1] Microsoft doesn't count... these are the same people who added delay loops into software (word, I think) on PPC Mac's so it would not appear to run faster then it did on PC's. NT is the last operating system I would compare on theoretical merits. -Matt