Mike Smith writes:
> >
> > I am not sure of thw state of things but if someone wanted to run Oracle-8
> > and had an idea in their mind that they'd like to run it in an Alpha,
> > tehn teh following questions would need to be answered (and I dont know
> > the answers)
> >
> > 2/ is there a binary version of Oracle we can run on the alpha?
>
> The Tru64 version _might_ work.
I have left my latest working copy of the osf1-ulator for -current at
http://www.freebsd.org/~gallatin/osf1.tar.gz
Really, I'll get around to committing it soon. Really...
> > 3/ does the alpha give a big increase in speed over the same dollars spent
> > on x86?
>
> Not under Oracle at the low end, no.
It might depend on your definition of low end. I don't know what
Oracle stresses (probably memory & I/O systems). In those catagories,
an $8k Compaq Professional Workstation xp1000 will kick sand in the
face of any x86 hardware I've seen which is in the same price range.
I haven't played with a rambus based machines yet though..
Drew
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