It ran good because Exchange 5.5 was ported to Alpha natively. Anything else that had to thunk to the emulation layer blew dead goats, as emulation tends to do. Alpha was great, don't get me wrong, but industry politics (Intel posturing, DEC aquisition by Compaq) dictated that Microsoft had to half-ass the job.
Personally, I was hoping that the CHRP platform would take hold. Funny how things come in a circle what with Apple abandoning PowerPC and OSX loading on Dells. -----Original Message----- From: Justin Selleck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:24 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on windows I disagree - I ran exchange 5.5 on a digital alpha using windows nt. At the time it was the most reliable NT system I had ever seen and it ran faster than any i386 system. Personally I wish MS would have continued development on it. -Justin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Anderson Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:57 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on windows Not to mention NT on Alpha and CHRP was a joke, the GUI was not native code and proper drivers were non existient. At the time MS was hedging their bets because it looked like CHRP / Alpha might be going somewhere. I had for a while a Motorola CHRP machine with Daytona on it and it was utter crap but it was a "let's throw it up there and see what sticks" situation. I also got to eval a "flippy" board with a P-90 AND a 603, reboot and it would ask you which proc you wanted to use. Was it Orange Micro that had that?? wow 10 years ago seems like a lifetime. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Hoyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:59 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on windows Rich Adamson wrote: > Both probably resulted from some untested/unexpected activity the > developer never addressed for whatever reason. Moving the mouse?????? lol. Actually I remember this problem on NT4.. the mouse driver used to drag the system down completely.. it was a complete resource hog. Tony _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users