[TriLUG] AMD vs. Intel

[Brian McCullough]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:16:51PM -0400, Ron Joffe wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 11:09, Greg Brown wrote:
> > What ever happened to my Digital Unix box running on 64 bit Alpha chips?
> > And that was 1995 or 1996.  One would think we would be further down the 64
> > bit path by this point.
> 
> Weird that you guys hit this path today. Just yesterday I dusted off a few of 
> my multia's (233 Mhz Alpha's in a tiny case), and powered them up. They were 
> originally designed for Win NT 4.0 (64bit). I had run Tru64 on them.
> 
> Anyone interested in playing with an Alpha ?

I would be.  I have been running a couple of AMD X86_64s lately, with no
complaints at all.  One is the machine that I am ( slowly ) building to
take over for half-a-dozen PII and Celeron machines doing various server
roles. ( the AMD 64 is running Xen )



> Ron


Brian


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