One more bites the dust

[mike shlitz]

--- Fred <puissante at lrc.puissante.com> wrote:

> 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
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