One more bites the dust

[Fred]

On Monday 09 January 2006 00:08, Ben Scott wrote:
> Some general commentary...
...
> I was once told that NT on the Alpha was fairly limited in it's
> support for 64-bit operation, and didn't even properly support the
> large memory model.  I think it was by someone trying to sell OSF/1
> licenses, though, so that info might be biased.  :)

Knowing what I do of the NT API at the time NT Alpha was announced, I am very 
doubtful NT could've handled the large memory model. Maybe, but I remain 
very doubtful.  I don't ever recall anything in the MDSN about Alpha's large 
memory model, so my guess it that it was never quite supported. Besides, If 
I recall correctly, NT had some major issues with anything over 2GB at the 
time. It's been a while, though, so I could be mistaken.

I still probably have some really old NT Alpha MSDN CDs buried under years of 
clutter around here somewhere if anyone is so masochistic to find out. 
However, I'm not so sure I am so masochistic to did them up from the years 
of clutter and dust. 

They'd make good frisbees anyway for the kids. Or coasters. Or something to 
give to your worst enemy. ;-)

-Fred