What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1970
Eric Chomko
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You can not honest blame DEC for Itanium's poor sales...
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You do not write buttembly in 'C' clubi-wan-kenoobie. The contents of an asm construct are not 'C'. :S
The majority of my programming has been done in C-C++ on IA-32 (x86) boxes. Lately I've been burning 'cheap' cycles by the zillion by using Python (a political choice).
You can define your own target if you wish, but there is little need. GNU's buttembler, 'gas' supports most processors that I have come across, although it I don't think it supports T2-4-8 or ST20. It even supports VAX and PDP-11.
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I would argue RISC machines are all that and more - they skip (most of) the cruft that CISC boxes carry with them. Even the compilers are treating CISC machines like RISC machines in this day and age...
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Cheap at the price as far as compilers go. It is a damn good compiler... :)
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... Apples to Oranges ...
Eric Chomko SNIP Not "typically reserved for buttembly language" in my experience. Nearly every HLL I have used had some form bitwise operators and unsigned types. buttembler != HLL...
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i've frequently claimed that the 801-risc project in the 70s was an adverse reaction to the future system project ... and was looking at doing the exact opposite. future system was...
Alpha (after much contract and export control wrangling) has been fabbed by Samsung, Intel and DEC. Itanium is strictly single source. It will remain single source until Intel decides to grant other parties the rights to make it *and* the other parties see some money in it. Part of the reason Intel-HP went for a whacky Architecture is so they could patent it to hell and back.
Cheers, Rupert
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1971
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