jdk 1.4: what's alpha's future?

2003-09-10 Thread Tom Vier
hp has 1.4.1 for vms and tru64, but not linux. the best i found is 1.3.1
from compaq's old site. kaffe is unusably slow and single threaded.
unfortunetly, the compaq fastvm isn't. netbean's menus on my ultra5 running
solaris (333mhz/2megs) are way faster! an ultra5 should not beat a dual
833mhz/4meg alpha. 8( my year old, not so fast pc at work, running sun's
hotspot, also kicks my alpha's ass.

is there any hope? or do i just save up for an smp opteron (and wait for
linux support to stabilize)? i assume hp has little interest in linux/alpha.

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Netscape crashing [Fwd: Re: Re: Browser for Multia]

2003-09-10 Thread mcompengr

Sites that crash Netscape 4.78 on my Alphas.

www.zend.com (uses PHP)
www.oceanatlas.org (uses JSP)
www.ebay.com (uses static HTML)
www.c-span.org

Going to these and others results in an instant Netscape crash for me.
The source is supposed to available at mozilla.org but I only see Mozilla
itself there, not Commuicator.  My build of Mozilla 2.6 took up 2 Gig
of disk space (wow).  It doesn't crash going to those sites, but it is
incredibly slow, 50 sec. just to come up on the XP1000.  Is the Netscape
really open.

Sigh,
Martin


 Original Message 
Subject: Re: Re: Browser for Multia
Resent-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:35:10 -0600 (CST)
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:18:07 +0100
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 16.03.03 22:12:39:
 
 
 Go to:
 http://wp.netscape.com/download/archive/client_archive47x.html
 
 Download, then un-tar/gzip, then read README.install which tells
 you to execute the ns-install script.  I use it 99% of the time.
 But more and more now I find web-pages that load completely empty,
 though still with the Document: Done. message, and worse: sites
 that cause Netscape to crash.  (Ex: http://www.zend.com)  It may
 be a java thing.  For those sites I bring up mozilla or another.
 
 ---Martin
 
 communicator-v478.alpha-dec-osf4.0


Thanks a lot, Martin. I'll give it a shot.

Marc