Re: Off topic: NT on Alpha (was: Alpha Users in the Toronto area.)

[Chris Kloiber <chris_kloiber suth com>]

Phillip Ezolt wrote:
> 
> For the record, Compaq said that they would no longer support 32-bit Alpha/NT,
> but they would support the 64-bit version that Microsoft had been promising
> for a while.
> 
> Within the next week, Microsoft announced that they would be dropping support
> for 64-bit Alpha/NT, and by the way, they have 64-bit NT running on Merced.
> 
> 3 guesses which 64-bit architecture they developed on while Merced was a
> CAD dream.
> 
> --Phil
> 
> Compaq: Business Critical Servers Division/Benchmark Performance Engineering
> ---------------- Alpha, The Fastest Processor on Earth --------------------
> Phillip.Ezolt@compaq.com        |C|O|M|P|A|Q|        ezolt@perf.zko.dec.com

Hey Mr.Compaq!

What has to happen for Compaq to start active development again on em86?
The latest version I saw (0.4) is several years old, and I haven't been
able to make it work with Red Hat 6.0 (glibc problem?) Any ideas?

Chris