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the_black_angel:
Question: Does AMD use CISC because i have heard a couple of rumours that it uses a mixture of CISC and RISC? i don't know how. Also could you explain Alpha a bit? I don't know much about these
choasforages:
most current implamentations of x86 i think actaully translate x86 code to rops/*risc operations*/ and about the dec alpha. it is a true 64 bit cpu that was made to either run openvms or tru64 unix/*formaly called digital unix*/ it is a very badd ass processor. some current models can crunch a seti packet in less then an hour/*remeber each seti packet consists of 3-5 teraflops of work that needs doing from what iv read*/ go on the seti at home website and look it up. if it wasn't soo expensive it could have replaced the x86. one thing to rember is that there integer math isn't really good, intel wins on the integer side, however when working with floating point math/*not funny office suites, stuff like supercomputing and alot of other stuff*/ it is one of the fastest processors out there/*don't know about mips though, im pretty sure its fast as hell to*/
note people who have worked with this stuff correct me if im rong
the_black_angel:
So is the Alpha fast at applications or is it just good if you give it a big chunk of info to sort through? what OS's run on it? x86? sounds interesting how expensive are they?
choasforages:
off of ebay one can pick up a 500 mhz dec machine for about 300 bucks. youd probably have to add things to it to make it cooler. and for the os's it can run heres a pretty goot list. /*takes in a deep breath*/
openvms, dec unix, tru64, linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows NT 3.5/*only certian versions, the disks are rare now*/ , windows NT 4.0 /*i actally have a winnt disk that will support a dec alpha ;) */
and for the last question, x86 os's won't run becuase the alpha is an entirely different archititure then x86.
voidmain:
Sure you might have an old copy of NT that will run on it, but don't expect the applications to run. Remember the apps are compiled for x86. Good thing you have the source code (oh wait, that's Linux).
[ edit] you might find this link interesting: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1028
[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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