Author: Owen Lyne
Date: 08:57:52 09/17/99
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On September 17, 1999 at 11:46:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 17, 1999 at 10:53:36, walter irvin wrote: >>i know very very little about the alpha ,i want the absolute fastest machine >>possible ,but i have to be able to put a chess program on it .is a alpha ibm >>compatible , could i put a crafty on it .could i program on it?? i have only >>programed on ibm thats all . > > >Crafty runs just fine on the alpha. As does windows NT if that is your >preferred operating system (Linux works great too as does Digital's unix >version). It is _not_ Intel compatible... but you can write programs in >any language you want, just as you can on an Intel box. I think they even >have an emulator that lets you run Intel software on the alpha... What kind of price are we talking about though? I thought alphas were in a whole different price range....? You don't see them at tyour local computer shop unfortunately (or if you do, I want to visit your shop!). And is it not the case that Alpha and NT are going their separate ways in future? Much as I dislike being in the Microsoft majority (ie owning and using their software) there is is still much catching up to be done to make other options match up all round (though for specific purposes, there have been and are plenty of viable options, of course). As a general purpose home office, chess computer and games machine (as in Quake, Command and Conquer, Civilisation, car racing games etc) Wintel has the bases covered - Linux is gradually filling in gaps and anything else is a stretch? For a workplace environment, not such a stretch... And even there, perhaps Linux on Intel/AMD type boxes is a way to go... For pretty good value processing, if not the eyepopping NPS ;) Owen
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