On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On 22 Aug 2008, at 10:34 pm, Gary Lee Phillips wrote: > > Institutions and individuals in tight financial situations or in less >> technically advanced areas continue to use Alphas because they are what is >> available. Buying newer 64-bit machines may simply be out of the question >> for them. >> > > I don't think that's true. I don't think any PC vendors now sell Wintel > machines which don't have 64-bit capability.
My point was not a question of availability but of cost. The Alpha you already have, that still operates, costs nothing but electricity to run. A new machine has an initial purchase and set up cost. With respect to electricity consumption, the machines I have don't really >> use any more than other desktop PCs would. Nor do they take up a lot more >> space, as far as that goes. >> > > On the server side, that isn't true either. ES45s are huge beasts (7U > high), which is enormous compared to, say, an HP DL360, which can have 8 CPU > cores and a lot more memory than the ES45 in a 1U box, and will use less > power too. No question about that. I strongly suspect that most of the Alphas still in use are the more recent, smaller units. There seem to be a large number of DS10 and DS10L machines still running, for instance. --Gary
