[Info-vax] Poulson info from Dave Cantor

Jan-Erik Soderholm jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Sun Nov 28 10:34:13 EST 2010


On 2010-11-28 14:27, Neil Rieck wrote:
>>
>> Try this link from the Wayback machine:
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20010609162013/http://www.compaq.com/hpc/r...
>>
>> (this one is dated October 11, 1999)
>>
>> NSR
>
> Poking around with Google, I decided to search for the phrase
> "alpha_ia64.pdf" which returned results like this:
>
> http://pdfdatabase.com/search/alpha-ia64-pdf.html
>
> http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~marc/code/cs421/alpha_ia64.pdf
>
> ###
>
> Comment: this document contains the following phrases:
>
> 1) "IA64: a smart compiler and a dumb machine"
> 2) "Alpha: a smart compiler and a smart machine"
>
> For the past few years (2007-2010) we have seen lots of installations
> running JVMs (java virtual machines), emulations, and virtualizations.
> So let me ask you this: which is better, "smart machine" or "dumb
> machine"?
>
> NSR
>

You mean like in JVDM ("Java Virtual Dumb Machine") ?
I'm not a Java fan...





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