Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:52:56 08/08/00
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On August 08, 2000 at 10:54:48, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>Simply call Compaq and tell them you want to buy an XP1000 workstation. They >>will happily ship you one _right now_. About the same size as a PC in a mid- >>size tower case. >> > >>Nope.. David was originally going to make it "uniform platform" but that >>fell through. The rules have _always_ been a single-cpu commercially available >>microprocessor. A couple of years ago some of the participants had Kryo-ed >>alphas. Crafty ran on a 21164 in Paris. >> > >What would the cost be one one of these machines? And I am only guessing, but I >doubt a Windows version would run one correct? Or does Windows 2000 have support >of the alphas? No windows for the alphas any longer. Microsoft and Digital/Compaq had some sort of falling out. NT 4.0 was available for the alpha, but alpha support was dropped... last year I think.
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