On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:35:23 -0500
Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course having VMS only 32-bit on the VAX made sense, as you could not
get the architecture to be 64-bit.
If Alpha VMS was only 32-bit, I would think that would have been another
classic mistake by Digital. If
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:43 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
On 2/15/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/15/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, Microsoft doesn't support a 64-bit address space, even today,
in Vista. Hey, it's only been like, what, 14 years since the Alpha
On 2/15/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Timeline:
May, 1994 - Met Linus Torvalds at DECUS in New Orleans after funding his
trip to speak on Lyenooks. Saw Leenooks for the first time.*
*SNIP*
maddog, that's an awesome little writeup. :-D Note next reply below, however..
maddog, that's an awesome little writeup. :-D
Actually, the story was much stranger and more unbelievable than that.
If I told you the whole story, you would probably think I was lying, or
at least making it up in some places.
That is what is so amazing about this project and this
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:56:15 -0500
Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I actually thought that VMS was 64-bit right from the get-go on Alpha
(1993), but I could be wrong on that
No. It was 32-bits on the Alpha and still is. I followed up on that
last year at the IDF in Houston. It
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:25 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:56:15 -0500
Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I actually thought that VMS was 64-bit right from the get-go on Alpha
(1993), but I could be wrong on that
No. It was 32-bits on the Alpha and still
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:35:23 -0500
Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course having VMS only 32-bit on the VAX made sense, as you could not
get the architecture to be 64-bit.
If Alpha VMS was only 32-bit, I would think that would have been another
classic mistake by Digital. If
