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My company had an Alpha server running NT 4.0 that everyone was enthused about. What made it a pain, though, was that MOST applications had to be run in emulation mode, as MOST applications weren't compiled for Alpha chips. Emulation wasn't perfect, either, and we had some random problems that we could only chalk up to emulation problems.

I think the Alpha chip would stand a better chance in a world where most applications were written in either Java or .NET.
Posted by: John Carroll   Posted on: 10/20/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Weak server...  Mike Cox | 10/17/03
Are you related to Mike Cox?  John L. Ries | 10/17/03
Yo, There IS life after .NET . . . It's called J2EE . . .  Plain Logic | 10/18/03
New HP AlphaServer the omega of the line  Curmudgeon_z | 10/17/03
Suggestion  John L. Ries | 10/17/03
Good idea, but economics keeps it from working  MrNihil | 10/19/03
Maybe...  John L. Ries | 10/20/03
Thoughts & comments  Gtyrebyter | 10/22/03
Microsoft never really supported Alpha  toomuchgreeatea@... | 10/18/03
Was M$'s abortive work with Alpha/MVS just to swipe MVS technology?  dicktaurus@... | 10/18/03
Back in the day...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/20/03

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