Sven Barth wrote:
To my surprise I've got an Alpha system, but my understanding is that
nobody's making silicon any more. Since Chinese manufacturers appear to
have settled on MIPS as their non-x86 of choice, I don't see much future
for it.
That nobody is producing Alpha (or Alpha-like) chips anymore is the
biggest problem with it. So only have legacy devices and emulators to
work on...
Much as I respect venerable antiques, if nobody's using it and having an
FPC port isn't going to encourage use I see little point in the effort.
SPARC is live- although Oracle are being aggressive in their attempts to
make it a closed system for their turnkey products. MIPS is alive,
courtesy of the Chinese who- I'm told- are now shipping good-value kit.
68K is alive thanks to Coldfire etc. IA-64 is alive but on life-support.
IBM mainframes are alive, thanks largely their support for Linux.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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