disparities in hardware?


Ari Jort (arijort@thorn.net)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:52:04 -0500 (EST)


A general question from someone who does not know
very much about hardware or about alphas:

Why do there seem to be such great disparities
in software support among the various alpha platforms?
Are there historical reasons? Do similar issues
exist for NT/Alpha? How about other chips?

It seems there are many more complications getting software
for one particular alpha as opposed to another than for
the various intel chips and their clones; even chips made
by other companies. All the varieties of Alphas are actually
made by Digital, right?

Thanks for any enlightenment,

Ari Jort

-- 
To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with
'unsubscribe' as the subject.  Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Sun Jan 24 1999 - 14:47:45 PST