Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:12:30 01/23/01
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On January 23, 2001 at 03:59:04, Joshua Lee wrote: >microway sells the 21264's same as Compaq except cheaper and you have the option >for windows or unix atleast that's what it looked like to me. $17,000 for a >system that's over 2x as fast as the fastest Athlon or Pentium hmmm anyone know >how much the thouroughput 5.2GB has to do with chess programs? You can buy used Alpha machines (e.g. 500MHz) for a very low price. You can put Windows NT on them (if you can get ahold of a copy), and there is a C++ compiler from Microsoft that is pretty good. But there is no future, since both MS and Compaq decided not to support NT on Alpha. (And they both need a good, swift kick for that. NT is not scalable to high performance and Alpha does not have access to the best end-user tools and a low-end growth path).
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