[squeak-dev] want to get squeak running on Gentoo Alpha architecture (compaq es-40)

richard snow richard.snow at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 22:47:09 UTC 2009


I bought my Alpha for $750 on Ebay.  has 4 cpu ev67, 4GB ram


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Alan Grimes<agrimes at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> My latest materialistic desire: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/ - the
>> TouchBook, which is based on the BeagleBoard and runs Linux. It uses an
>> ARM CPU with a Cortex-A8 core; it includes support for the Thumb-EE
>> instruction set which is specifically designed for running code
>> generated by JIT compilers. There's potential there.
>
> Bleh,
>
> I'm only in the market for workstations.
>
> Intel seems to have some mafia-like control over the chip industry and
> has locked out all other ISA's from the workstation market, at any sane
> price-point at least.
>
> Last time I went shopping for an Alpha, I was quoted a price of $11,000
> =(((((
>
> Even still, much of the stuff on that board was out of date. =(
>
> Now they don't even exist. =((
>
>
> --
> New president: Here we go again...
> Chemistry.com: A total rip-off.
> Powers are not rights.
>
>
>



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