Re: Dream of the Alpha/Linux future

[Designer Seven <designer_7 yahoo com>]

Well.. since you say "dream" ... 

Personally, I'd like to see a greater variety of
processors in the market.. sharing the market. That is
to say, no single architecture has an overwhelming
dominance. (like Intel has today) And I'd like to see
Alpha with a fair share of the market. I'd like to see
all these different architectures compete against each
other and accelerate their technological advances and
push their prices down.

And in the chaos of all these architectures being
used, people start dumping OSes that can only run on a
limited number of architectures. Linux and BSD become
the OSes of choice for being able to run on so many
architectures. In light of this, corporations decide
to pool their technologies to help advance Linux and
BSD to its fullest potential. 

Then, Unix in general develops more user friendly
interfaces, so that people have a choice to use an
easy to use GUI that will shield them from the
internals and command line. Oh, and since only Linux
and BSD survive, the word "Unix" becomes public
domain.

As all this is happening, the OS becomes a shielding
layer from the hardware... and people no longer choose
hardware architecture because of available software,
but only for raw performance. They all realise Alpha
kicks ass... and eventually dump everything else for
the Alpha. Of course, by this time, I've bought
countless number of shares of Compaq...;-)

I wake up yelling "Alpha ROCKS!!!" and fall out of my
bed.... realising..... it's just a dream.

D.

--- Phillip Ezolt <ezolt@perf.zko.dec.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 	Alot of the questions/answers on this list are
> problems/solutions to setup Alpha/Linux.  Very good,
> Very practical.
> 
> I have a non-practical question for everyone. 
> 
> 	What is your dream of the Alpha/Linux future? 
> 
> One thing I would love to see is a rocking
> Alpha/Linux game/demo page. 
> 
> We have source to games (Quake, descent, doom,
> heretic).
> We have source to the Voodoo chipset drivers. 
> 
> I would love to have a knock-your-socks off graphic
> demo that I could
> use to show off the alpha.
> 
> Not speaking for Compaq,
> --Phil
> 
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