maddog, et. al. Thanks much for that additional history. I am filing it as notes for my eventual 'autobiography' accordingly.
I also remember reading Terry Shannon's 'Charlie Matco' columns back then and I believe I even corresponded with him once or twice. May he indeed, fellow 'Nam vet (we were there at the same time, albeit with different tasks, one of which I shared with him during my later tour in TLC) , rest in peace. His web site exists here: http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/ <http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/>I would cheerfully kill someone now for a Charlie Matco coffee mug. Cheers! On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <mad...@li.org> wrote: > David, > > Unfortunately the site you mention: > > http://www.alphant.com/ > > has a FAQ that is wrong: > > http://www.alphant.com/ant_faq.shtml#64bits > > Alpha NT never supported a 64-bit virtual address space. I seem to > remember that Digital offered that code to Microsoft in 1992, but > Microsoft turned it down because it was not in "their best business > interests" to accept it. > > I was also told that Digital also offered (perhaps at a royalty cost) an > implementation of their clustering software in the same timeperiod, > which Microsoft also turned down. Instead Microsoft came out with > "Wolfpack", which was the only clustering software I ever saw where two > processors ran slower than one. > > Finally, that site did have a bitter-sweet memory for me. In the upper > right-hand corner of the page is an "ad" for "Shannon knows DEC" the > byline of an old friend of mine, Terry "Charlie Matco" Shannon, may he > rest in the peace he deserves. > > md > >
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